GRs sexual intanglements

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Sun May 18 06:24:02 CDT 2003


P early wrote a writing plan to embellish
some core metaphor without disclosing it.

I would not be hanging in at this list save
that I recognize in Pynchon an autofellator,
which is the crux of poetics and religion.

GR opens with the rocket falling, and ends
with Blicero (someone said =death?) being
sent up in such a rocket behind a shield
of Imipolex G.

In GR as a hologram where the whole as well
as every detail relates to AF or associated
phenomenal states; The whole is an outermost
icon of AF: The same rocket going up is the
same rocket coming down, as in Jonah 4:6-7:

"And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over
Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him
from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day,
and it smote the gourd that it withered."

You can see that the gourd is his own penis,
and it "came up over him" in what I call the
classic Atlas inverted AF dicovery position.

Being part of the whole, the gourd is Jonah.
The worm that entered the gourd is his semen.
That the gourd withered records a psychosis,
exactly as happened to me after my first AF.

        ---

Imipolex G is also Jonah, whether P intends
it to stand for his semen (foremost in the
rocket) or the penis (self-erectile) or the
whole man (boundary upon which is projected
the interior ejaculation; hence comeliness).

        ---

The conditioning of the infant Slothrop goes
right back to everything Oedipal. Freud saw
in patient's fantasies their basis in infant
seduction or rude rape (but gave that up.)

I also read rude rape into many works, as is
handsomely portrayed in Goethe's Elf Koenig.
This is the watershed choice of Odysseus not
to plow his son, or Abraham, knife on Isaac.

I could avoid this conclusion, and excuse an
history of authors like Goethe building upon
the same observation, if I took mom's vagina
as a foetal consciousness' mouth equivalent.
Herein is the importance that Joseph knew not
Mary (yet again I say) until Jesus was born.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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