NPPR Commentary Line 62

[Glenn Scheper]

Now I must again impute AF to Kinbote:

My breast a thawing pond. I note that Greek mastix is
bosom or breast, and recognize the root in masturbate.
I'm surprised that Webster's missed that etymology.

The judge's shotgun: My shotgun anecdote is surely in
the Pynchon archive. This is the self-judge: Ye shall
sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel, all reflexive references hanging on the name
of that man who, when left alone, pulled out his own
leg joint in his zeal, an injury exceeding my worst.

To beard: a facial reference.

Terrace: like roof recently, and St. Agnes Eve, and
P's GR Streets sequence, the inverted body has some
isomorphisms with buildings and their parts.

New life / old death / in my brain: Standard to AF.

The phantoms coming for me were a familiar part of
my own schizophrenia: Not only did I fear that the
L.A. police helicopters would break apart over my
house, and the rotor decapitate me, but there were
like, ontological pressures, that I was supposed
to be dead now, and therefore had to kill myself.

"highway looping up over me and around my heart"
The Way: looping up over like yoga plow position.
Heart stands often for either mouth or genital,
but I have not pinned it down more closely.

I have cataloged Goethe's use of heart in 360 online poems:

Word = heart: As if living in a simulacrum were not bad enough,
the ancients believed the heart to be the seat of thought, and
the reins (i.e. kidneys) to be the seat of emotions. Now we say
the brain supports thought, and ascribe emotions to one's heart.
The symbolic heart on a Valentine's Day card resembles buttocks,
thus genitals, equipment of desire. Compare Jeremiah 4:4 saying,
"Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins
of your heart, ...." But in NT usage, heart is organ of thought.
...
In 60 cases, Goethe used heart variously for modes of thought,
of desire, of intent, of attitude, of affect, as a metaphor of
the chest, and as a synecdoche for person. But the following
occurrences strike me as autofellatio phallic part references;
inflamed by tongue, overflowing as water, pure and true as is
the monad, moldy of seed, physically firm, straight, thrilled:
...
Actually, I had seen that the last of those, The Spinner, is an attempt
by a male writer to reproduce a typical myth for female autocunnilingus.
Also I have omitted another class of reference, where also the heart is
the male genital, but the poem focuses on dyadic love. I list them next.
A common problem when exegesizing the self-referential Pan or Christ is
that most of us introject the concept of self as other, and of the male
as female, taken from aeons of similar auto-poetic myths and literature.
(Such blasphemies were foisted on us by interpreters in the simulacrum.)
Rather than strike those cases out, I will differentiate them as - Self.
There was only one describing dyadic intercourse: "Welcome and Farewell."

Bob: Self-reference, recovers the nodding origin of numinous.

Black cat - arching its back - sporting a neck bow of white silk 
which it could certainly never have put on all by itself:

This is what has established our patriarchy: failure to imagine
the comparable magico-religious possibility of autocunnilingus.
That's why Shade failed to latch onto Mrs Z's Crashaw interest.

She can reach his basement, being a boundary-entity like Hermes,
but that's probably the basement of his mentation, where I have
also had many an interesting encounter in my ... imagination?

The heliotrope man suggests a phase beyond AF, what I labeled my
Cernunnos ancecdote in theword.htm, with lots of rebirth symbols,
like traveling forward in a spiral, sitting in lotus position.

Grepping urls there gave a few:

http://sailor.gutenberg.org/etext96/gidan10.txt
 **The Project Gutenberg Etext of The God-Idea of the
 Ancients** or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble

http://www.sangraal.com/bardorion.htm
 Star Birth Bardo in the Body of Orion

http://www.templarhistory.com/levi.html
 The Knights Templar - www.templarhistory.com - Eliphas Levi: The Man Behind
The Baphomet

What? Nobody else staying up all night?

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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