"your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star"

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 06:08, Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/10/2003 2:00:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:
> 
> 
> > It's a partial answer to Roger's famous meditation on WHAT THE WAR
> > WANTS. p.131
> > 
> > My mother is the war declares Roger . . . . P.39
> > 
> 
> 
> What about dad? I mean w/r/t the metaphor, or whatever the proper
> rhetorical term for substituting one's female parent for "the war"
> might be.
> Unless Roger's was a virgin birth, "the war" had to mate with
> something
> (or someone) in order to conceive him. The god of fiction, perhaps?
> respectfully

Must have been a virgin birth, requiring reconfiguration of the Oedipus
Complex.

I don't care if it's some terrible Freudian revenge against his mother
for trying to castrate him.  p. 89

P