NPPF: Commentary to lines 47-48
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 3 18:07:23 CDT 2003
Part 1 of ?
Someone saying this was a Kinbote sexual encounter,
raised me from my lapse of reflexive awareness: The
minister in black below *IS* Kinbote, autofe11ator,
which I say is the theogony, theophagy and theurgy.
> ... Once,
> three decades ago, in my tender and
> terrible boyhood, I had the occasion of
> seeing a man in the act of making
> contact with God.
That form recalls scripture in 2 Corinthians 12:2,
in which I long recognized Paul to be his "a man",
expositing his own ineffable reflexive Word of God:
12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in
the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot
tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the
body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable
words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
12:5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory,
but in mine infirmities.
> I had wandered into
> the so-called Rose Court at the back of
> the Ducal Chapel in my native Onhava,
> during an interval in hymnal practice.
In this rolled-up reflexive act, the back is before the front.
Now since the church, ekklessia, is called out, a speech act,
it can include AF or FF, which made his father a king of him,
himself the court or chapel, wherein is praised (viz. sucked)
the king. AF breaks the spell of FF. Cf. Hamlet and Claudius.
> As I mooned there, lifting and cooling
> my bare calves by turns against a
> smooth column,
Since to moon is to present the bare buttocks, this fits AF.
>From the text of _The Mystic Tower_ I recognized a colonade
surrounding a tower as a trope of the teeth around a pen is.
Or also, the twin towers of _Ozymandias_ are his own thighs.
So either, commonly, his knees are upon his shoulders (thus
forelegs form raven's wings as in lyric by Door's Harrison),
so calves are beside the head, as base of a column, or else,
the calves might be locked behind arms, making them columns.
> I could hear the distant
> sweet voices interblending in subdued
> boyish merriment which some chance
> grudge, some jealous annoyance with one
> particular lad, prevented me from
> joining.
I will boldly claim the FF'ed father is that particular lad.
If the infant Kinbote also suffered MC, that puts him in the
fourth Revelation category, Thyatira, wherein his king/father
"will rule them with a rod of iron", inflict disproportionate
strictures upon the child, creating a lonely insular soldier.
> The sound of rapid steps made
> me raise my morose gaze from the
> sectile mosaic of the court --
Beyond an accepted ancient euphemism of hand, I claim
to stand, to walk, and a foot relate to the genitals.
Rapid steps recall Emily Dickinson's AC frenzied bell.
Morose gaze marks the repressed position of FF'ed boy.
Sectile = "capable of being cut smoothly with knife"
marks an abject, avoidant boy made everyman's victim.
Sorry, I didn't get much done on this today,
but I am stealing time from everybody else.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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