NPPF: pie ala Maud, Keat's version
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 28 05:11:59 CDT 2003
By request:
http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
Eliot, T. S. 1922. The Waste Land
Let me interpret the Chess game first, as upon AC:
II. A GAME OF CHESS
The web says the literary reference is of a woman
playing chess while her step?daughter is seduced,
parallelling a male father-to-uncle displacement.
077 THE Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
The throne in Revelation is the AF's or AC's mouth,
as I have already said of a seat in Pynchon's MMIV.
The throne may include all senses, including sight.
(Remember, in a reflexive situation, I can take any
part, above or below, to fit a part below or above:)
078 Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Glowing pertains to the head, as in "eyes were as a
flame of fire", "contenance was as the sun shineth".
Marble suggests first, teeth for ivory whiteness,
but glowed on mandates the opposition of genitals,
yet maybe roundness of toy marble permits eyes.
First, glass suggests eyes, doubled below, but Rev's
"sea of glass" (sea=laver=basin) suggests flowing,
molten glass, as of vaginal juices, for it is above:
079 Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
The standard is the female inverted torso, regarding
breasts as fruit, also a (private) theory of circuit
bifurcating from anus to breasts fits a tree or vine.
Or legs: Compare inverted Ozymandias, sneering up at
two towers which are obviously his own AF thighs.
080 From which a golden Cupidon peeped out
I lean toward golden meaning ejaculate-filled in Rev.
Cupidon finds French pages -- must be their variant
of Cupid, who, although I took him to be the son of
Eros, it may be I overlooked a gynandrous reflexive
collapsing of the two aspect of her one self, Eros.
Peep, if no typo, is a bird reference. (bird==AF.)
081 (Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
I told you, eyes=holes, labia=wings, Seraphim=AC.
082 Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
as Beatrice's eyes doubled Dante being the Griffin.
The flames lick, incense, set on fire: her tongue.
The seven lampstands that like-unto-a-Son-of-Man
walk amongst are the seven orifices of his head.
083 Reflecting light upon the table as
I don't know where to assign table, but Dickinson
said Heavens' table is hard to reach, so genitals.
084 The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
Glitter suggests ejaculate. I never heard of female
ova as jewels, as we say of men, but we have here a
male doing a female correspondence intersubjectively
like --was it Tennyson or Coleridge's? -- Cristabel.
085 From satin cases poured in rich profusion;
Satin well matches the texture of gemale genitals.
rich: Cf. gold.
086 In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Ivory and coloured! glass come back to teeth and eyes.
087 Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Every negation in this monadic tantric realm could mean
the extant active nullity, which the AF or AC has become.
Strange? You say so. Synthetic? It merges every duality.
Perfumes: vials of odors which are the prayers of saints.
088 Unguent, powdered, or liquid-troubled, confused
For powder, the psychic disintegration if as if a vessel
has been infinitely divided: crazed, stone, grains, dust.
Trouble: tribulation: gk thlypsis==pressure: depression.
Confused: Opposites meet on it's Klein bottle topology.
089 And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
Flooding tear ducts that lead pheromones to the brain?
Air: breath.
090 That freshened from the window, these ascended
Having assigned foot/stand/walk=genital, door=mouth,
I have to pin window on nose, as a guess.
Ascend: I have some notions of body parts as lexical
indexicals, and praise as oral puts one in the mouth
as "up": But note later, 192, musing dead/wrecked kings
father/brother contrasts low dry and low wet, for in
filial fellaio is only idolatry: the son is lowered.
091 In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
The candle-flames being the tongue, prolonged reminds
me of an anecdote of a lesbian girlfriend, who liked
to pretty much gag me on an outrageously long tongue.
092 Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
An insight that thunder and lightning are the female
and male components of coitus, map fire on ejacuation,
hence smoke on a lesser pre-fire element of foreplay.
093 Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Laqueria, a type of ceiling, and coffered ceiling
are the vault of her own tongue-stirred genitalia.
094 Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Sea=Laver: genital. Wood extends the tongue trope.
I could understand Iron from menses, but copper?
095 Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
The green must be related to hydro-CLORic stomach acid.
Color is of iris? Stone as eye then? Elsewhere (Excalibre,
Moses in clift of rock) stone seems to mean the calcinated
skull.
096 In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
Sad: Delores: depression, metanoia, psychosis.
Carved: Anything in a slit or wound is a blade.
Dolphin: mammalian fish.
Swam: Mary/Mar: pregnancy as introjected sea.
097 Above the antique mantel was displayed
Antique: Archaic: gk ARCHE = begining: so mantel
is the mouth. (For I know: Auto-rimming fits "to
tell the end from the beginning." thus I suspect
the alimentary tract is the dimension of "TIME",
like the states holding data in a digital filter.)
098 As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
Now this window must either be the genital or anus.
("The thief comes in through a window, not a door")
099 The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
Tereus found Philomel so en-chanting because this
in-singing has some effect, whether it be quantum
mechanical or merely psychological projection.
But Wastland changes tone here, to her husband...
Say Philomel, gk for Nightingale, is said by this
web page to be Russian for poet: Is that true?
http://muller.academic.ru/misc/muller.nsf/ByID/NT000F0B22
It isn't in my Russkie Slovar, but it would nestle nicely
beteen philolog and philosoth: philomel: the poet as bird.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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