NPPR Commentary Line 71

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 10 01:14:19 CDT 2003


part 2 of 2

 This uncompleted and badly gutted building was
> ordered razed by Queen Blenda who had it replaced by
> a tasteless monument of granite surmounted by an
> improbable type of aircraft made of bronze.

There's a tight conspiracy around the doubly abusive
Laodicean parents: their mother Jezebel, who would
"teach and seduce my servants to commit fornication
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols" and unnamed
father Satan who "will kill her children with death.
We could look to historical Jezebel's husband Ahab,
a king of Israel, for a father as king connection.

The son at Pergamos, suffering only AF, is given a
white stone. The son at Laodicea, suffering both
MC and FF, likens his feet to fine brass. I can't
prefer now if the improbable airplane should mark
the son's own AF, his father's own AF, or FF.

> The glossy prints of the enlarged photographs
> depicting the entire catastrophe were discovered
> one day by eight-year-old Charles Xavier ..
> make out the shoulders and leathern casque ...
> raise one arm in triumph and reassurance ...
> those infernal records.

What might this be? I say AF recovers the somatic
prelinguistic infant memory of FF, causing dread.
Untutored, I'd expect that to come at 20-30 years.
But I know one gay man, tutored, learned AF at 13.
This rather shows Charles discovered masturbation.
Or it may be a Buddha's origin, wet dream in navel.

> woman, small cake, mother of sentinel, unshaven,
child of night, sat on a spur stone, in feminine
fascination, luciola-like tapers, window to window.

The sentinel is just another shard on the mirror
stage, set out to reflect another set of metaphors
on the core topic, perhaps best labeled Kinbote.
If FF makes bread of stone, this small cake would
be MC, herself fascinated by the suckling infant.
Unshaven hearkens back to Shade and to Wasteland,
excluding him from Pergamos' sword due to mere FF,
but not necessarily from the Laodicean combination.

> two workmen, wheels parallel to one another

See servos, above.

> Countess and seven councilors

This has the shape of Revelation, where I say the sevens
are formed by excluding one female from the eights, which
categorize all persons by three attributes in combination
(gender, FF, MC). This is Kinbote's mother, for she is a
mother of Fleur, who (Fleur) I will shortly make Kinbote:
The luxurious kissing cousin is none but himself. (L 80)

> The drunk started to sing a ribald ballad about
> 'Karlie-Garlie' and fell into the demilune ditch.

The drunk is young Kinbote also. AF is all of drinking,
ribald, a ballad; a mouth a ditch, and crescent shaped.
Garlie captures much more than I can exposit today: AF
may impute or confound homosexuality. The phallus is a
fetish of the absent woman in AF; hence may be labeled
as female, even named, as Poe and Dante and others do.

> in a niche of a little corridor

Have I said autosodomy yet tonight? A writing which is
intrinsically misplaced, being on the indexical WHERE?
[much more to mine in the discourse on the drawn plan]

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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