Commentary to lines 47-48

[Don Corathers]

Glenn--

In my driveway I have access to a Mini Cooper (young, cute, very quick in
the corners) and a older Nissan Altima (experienced, well-mannered, solid
citizen with a surprising wanton streak). Which would you recommend to
somebody who is just beginning to experiment with this auto-fellatio thing?

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: NPPF: Commentary to lines 47-48


> 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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