NPPR Commentary Line 71
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 10 00:45:46 CDT 2003
part 1 of 2
> Thus, there is only one allusion to my friend's
> masterpiece (the neatly stacked batches of which,
> as I write this, lie in the sun on my table as
> so many ingots of fabulous metal) ...
On the surface, masterpiece means the poem, but any
masterful piece (a sexual reference) could suffice.
In the egoless unity of this domain, Kinbote's M.P.
would allude to Shade's M.P., permitting batches of
Kinbote stacked, in a sun which I'll pin on testes,
making the fabled metal semen, recalling an earlier
PF thimbleful of metallic tea. Likewise in Elf King,
"My mother has many garments of gold." maps gold on
the covering of her genital, that is, on the father.
> My friend could not evoke the image of his father.
Paradoxical son-of-self, he cannot see his own face.
Or perhaps, paternal AF and FF has aligned their two
faces like servo motors, both HERE hold pater's penis.
I suggest first reading Fairy King as infant seduction:
http://www.moonfairye.com/library/Erlkoenig/erlking.htm
'I love you, your comeliness charms me, my boy!
And if you're not willing, my force I'll employ.'
... The father shudders, his ride is wild,
In his arms he's holding the groaning child,
Tie that with a simple remapping of the ubiquitous
self-as-bird trope of AF now upon self-as-airplane:
> [The son of King Alfin...] did remember perfectly
well the little monoplane of chocolate that he,
a chubby babe, happened to be holding [in photo of]
riding-breeched aviator in whose lap he reluctantly
and uncomfortably sprawled.
> my father ... King Alfin
Kinbote is Charles. Alfin recalls Elfin.
> young Zemblan interpreter (whose sex I leave open)
Now if Zembla is either a realm of AF, or a realm of
FF or MC, interpretation is a sexual speech act, as
I posit MC at Ephesus leaves a trace "you have tried
them who say they are prophets" (interpreters). His
best attempt to exposit/body forth the mystery of his
fathers' ejaculation sans understanding produces the
good son's servitude to, symbiosis with, the father.
Such a puer aeternis, eternal youth, never grows up.
Kafka complained his father caused him an impotence.
This could be mapped onto FF imputing homosexuality.
> monoplane ... his bird of doom ... that the angels
> chose to net his mild pure soul, King Alfin was in
> the act of trying solo a tricky vertical loop...
I know, monoplane has a meaning. But it recalls for me
monogenes, said to mean only-begotten, but I'd suggest
rather, alone-begotten, for AF reborn as son-of-self.
Doom is dread, that I suggest is concommittent on AF.
All uses of angels might require a larger extension,
but probably marks AF (cherubim). (AC == seraphim.)
Tricky vertical loop - trick/tour/turn of body in AF.
> what seemed at first a noble and graceful evolution
To one steeped in AF monadic tantra, the meaning of Jesus'
"praise is perfected in the mouths of babes and sucklings"
is clear, the choice of terms herein even sound laudatory.
Offering on the face of it a further evolution of magic;
but rather, the divine test, offered without technology
to fathers of all backgrounds and ages; A take-home test.
Perhaps it is only relevant to further screen an AF mage,
of no real application elsewhere; Perhaps relevant to all.
> immediately afterwards, he flew smack into the
> scaffolding of a huge hotel which was being
> constructed in the middle of a coastal heath as if
> for the special purpose of standing in a king's way.
I may have parts out of place, but the scaffolding is
a womb, that facilitates making, but is not, a hotel.
This then recovers the king conceiving little Charles.
Procreation certainly stands in the way of free sex.
Webster mentions heath is marsh or Wasteland (FWIW).
The coast maps on coitus, for the androgynous Pan in
full lotus position is that Rev. 10:2 angel who "set
his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot upon
the earth." Rightly dividing the monad onto a dyad
yields earth as female (Cf. stability 2+2=2*2=2^2)
and sea as male. (All men shall be semen then, until
the sea shall free them). Hahahaha! Sorry.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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