NPPF Commentary Line 209, P. 163

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 1 of ...
> Wha? Thermodynamics? I guess I missed that neat trick.

Well, I forgot where during Internet grazing philosophy
I learned, but no living man experiences his own death,
only the death of others: So death is a social function.
Likewise, irreversibility of thermodynamics comes from
improbability, which arises in statistics of aggregates
of gas molecules. Of course, metanoia is something like
the living experience of death; tantra belies retro-PK.

> My Soul. Such fullness in that quarter overflows...

Like a digestive enzyme, I was attracted to these words.
They turned out to be a Yeats poem. Indulge I interpret:

_William Butler Yeats's 'A Dialogue Of Self And Soul'
http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/2580/showline=1

 1 I;
 2 My Soul , I summon to the winding ancient stair;

soul - presumes psyche, mind
summon - AF as speech act
ancient - this, core of all poetics
stair - for ascent to heaven
winding - to fit a cylinder
Cf. Poe dashing up towers, Dante opening DC.

 3 Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,

Hey, this might also have to do with autosodomy!
I never had this much fun in High School English.

 4 Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,

Since years of AF did not produce the eschaton.
(PF: Dear Jesus, Do something!)

 5 Upon the breathless starlit air,

breathless - more pronounced with AC than AF,
but better, sodomy involves no breath at all!
Illumination is a frequent trope about AF,
but here star (anus) is providing the light.
air - between here and star is penis in AF isomorphism.

 6 "Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;

star - in Islam's crescent recalls anus in cheeks
hidden - as in my last post: anus is WHERE indexical
pole - phallus is hidden from self by autosodomy

 7 Fix every wandering thought upon
 8 That quarter where all thought is done:

Recalls to mind a Cartesian thought experiment,
but Kant shew we cannot assume causality across
the body/mind interface: Descarte's castle falls.

Better to guess Yeats intends direct gnosis, with
the romantic or renaissance manner of following
symbolic, imaginative leaps to explain phronesis
into the simulacrum, from Dasein unto Das Mann.

 9 Who can distinguish darkness from the soul

Light meets dark on the one-sided Klein bottle's
boundary. Only dualists would try to separate
the two, and totalize all darks as bad things.

 10 I;
 11 My Self . The consecretes blade upon my knees

self - presumes corpus, body (Yeats predating Jung)
consecrate[d] - with blood, sacred, holy, uncommon;
perfected in the self-sacrifice which is a slaying
without murder, death without mortality. I.e., AF.
blade - penis

 12 Is Sato's ancient blade, still as it was,

I heard not of Sato, but if Yeats recognizes Sato,
I trust Sato is my fellow: I trust Yeats' account.
as it was - always just as young as the sacrifice

 13 Still razor-keen, still like a looking-glass

razor-keen - "sharper than a two-edged sword"
looking-glass - highlights reflexive aspect

 14 Unspotted by the centuries;

unspotted - undiscerned, hence too, unassailable

 15 That flowering, silken, old embroidery, torn

flowering - aspect of sexual entity
silken - like spider's thread
old - of original order, not like new order
embroidery - originally begotten or knitted

 16 From some court-lady's dress and round

from the womb

 17 The wodden scabbard bound and wound

round - ouroboric, or better, self-enclosing
wooden - tumescent "woody"
scabbard - mouth. by reflexion, part of woody
bound - upon sword. by reflexion, upon scabbard
wound - ouroboric, like Steven's "ring of men"

 18 Can, tattered, still protect, faded adorn

Nor age nor repetition its surprise surcease.

To be continued... 

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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