VLVL2 (1) Missed Communications: Beginnings

[Terrance]

Michael Joseph wrote:
> 
> Paul, Thanks for your response, and for managing to fit Eliade into your
> nicely nuanced engagement with _Vineland._ Your willingness and aptitude
> for coordinating both an ideological and mythic reading of the text
> strikes me as admirable and useful; I think the kind of "creative
> hermeneutics" that potentiates Eliade's engagement with religious texts
> naturally subverts hegemonic structures, so I'm inclined to be
> enthusiastic about a reading that uses the theme of Return to interrogate
> the entelechy of the state.

 Z returns to the window. His MO is jumping through glass. 

For religious man, the world is renewed annually; in other words, with
each new year it recovers it original sanctity, the sanctity that it
possessed when it came into creation or as Eliade say, "from the
creator's hand." The entelechy of the state, in the Aristotelian sense,
is not the subject of comedy, but of tragedy.