AF and PF Canto One.

[joeallonby]

Has Dimitri seen this?

on 7/23/03 1:41 PM, Glenn  Scheper at glenn_scheper at earthlink.net wrote:

> From two basic premises (FF makes effete, AF restores),
> I read 1-6 as evidence of the effete son, living as if
> looking through a pane of glass that separates his, a
> narrowly constrained diminished life, from real lives.
> 
> If AF collapses the distinction, or makes oneself one's
> own parent, ornithologist in 71-72 extends the AF=Bird
> metaphor prevalent in poetics unto him who studies AF.
> I have also wondered, does this rebirth as self-parent
> only occur at the initial AF, or is it a regeneration
> every time, yielding 1000's of self-parents, as at 74?
> 
> 90: "She lived to hear the next babe cry." Since AF as
> speech act assumes many tropes, including to cry, Maud
> may await the chance to abuse each new infant with CL.
> 
> 109-113: Iridule is much weighted elsewhere. Staring
> reveals this trope: Since AF is used to infer, much as
> a shaman's fetish to access what is transcendent, the
> knowledge of some particular target partner in coitus;
> separation of a rainbow from its thunderstorm reflects
> this same split, much as Emily Dickinson (AC poetics!)
> wrote once that she only wrote the syntax, leaving the
> verb and pronoun out. The iridule is "strange" as the
> hagios (saint) is uncommon, as AF and AC are uncommon.
> The "oval form" is the posture, like Wallace Steven's
> "ring-of-men". Since Revelation's opening of the first
> seal marks virgin coitus with a whore, there sound of
> thunder is attached to coitus--It is a non-speech act
> paralleling the speech act of AF in its penile effect.
> 
> 1-131-1000: I've seen three WaxWings slain (at 1:FF,
> 131:AF, 1000:decease). Prone and supine always perk
> up my ears: The prone-bypass-beneath of 143-145 sound
> to me like the jumbled body position of AF. Tin tells
> me of an effete son, living a tin soldier's non-life.
> 
> 146-148 parallel exactly my experiences in an acute
> psychosis that followed immediately upon my own AF:
> First a grand illumination and mania of being Jesus,
> then the despair of being unrecoverably lost, alone.
> 
> For me, that act produced an internalized Other, and psychosis.
> To wit: self-interpenetration produced the psychotic ideation
> of a vase that was spontaneously crazing, becoming an evenly
> distributed version of a Klein bottle, everywhere a boundary
> where every possible extreme opposite met, touched, were one.
> 
> So, this experience felt like the collapse of a wave function,
> and I took interest in Hiroshima, as if it's event wave front
> were just now passing over me. My self became an atomic bomb,
> cringing with every heartbeat as if that were the final tick.
> 
> At 161-163, this "tongue" is actually "penis" for I recall in
> some extra-canonical work, Gospel of Thomas perhaps, that the
> tongue of the beliver is the Holy Spirit: uncommon ejaculation.
> Also the Fairie Queene made of AF a knight entering the cave
> (his own mouth) of a female serpent, whose dugs (his own penis)
> feed her offspring (himself), vomiting up words, books, etc.
> 
> And of course, some slight shame of this abject domain lingers,
> even for me who's quite the out theorist and expositor of AF.
> 
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
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