NPPF: Commentary to lines 47-48

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 8 02:57:10 CDT 2003


Part 3 of ?

I've solved the three(four) female angels less than the males:

Sardis: Female with seven spirits = FF and AC. (cf. Ephesus).
Probably Emily Dickinson's category. (Dressed in white, and
who clearly deduced FF, having written: "Crowned - Crowing
- on my Father's breast -/ A half-unconscious Queen -"

Philadelphia: Female; No abuse; AC.

Laodicea: Female; MC, AC.

Excluded 8th category: Female, suffered FF and MC; Possibly
addressed in the "but unto you" of Thyatira's double letter.
(There are two morning stars: Mars and Venus--the bright &).
Excluded from seven Jesus spans by reversal of logic above.
Possibly appears at "another angel having a golden censor."
Her AC makes Babylon, but inflicting FF and/or MC, Jezebel.

No doubt a majority of people fall in the pre-Smyrna (male)
and pre-Philadelphia categories of no parental sexual abuse.
They have a possibility of becoming Smyrna or Philadelphia.

What got me on this spiel? I picked up Eliot's WasteLand to
see what next easy part I could redact, and there's Smyrna!
(I did 77-99=AC in "Re: NPPF: pie ala Maud, Keat's version")

209 Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
210 Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants

Unabused with AF is certainly eu-genides. Unshaven because
his pen is is not a sword, as a Pergamos. (PF--take note!)
Pocket as purse is mouth, full of currants, grapes, pen is.

243 (And I Tiresias have foresuffered all
244 Enacted on this same divan or bed;

Tiresias is some variant of Jesus, whose O.W.D.I.N. (above)
granted him parental duplicity, but has a different FF / MC
or FF2 combination, perhaps like Paul, perhaps another way.
Some of these variants cause divine 4+3 combinatrics to shift
to 5+2, yielding the realm of 7/10 creatures instead of 7/12.

This is what caught my attention, spurred me to write today:
270 Red sails
271 Wide
272 To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
Big Aha! This is coitus: Sails = female; Spar = male.

294 Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees
295 Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.'

"Raised the knees" creates an ellipsis suggesting to me AF.
If these are real cities in England, they should map well
on a man in yogic plough position, allowing for both uses
of feet, once as feet, and once as genitals. Even so, the
canoe may stand for the man, not a literal event outdoors.

303 The broken fingernails of dirty hands.

Contrast PF: Synthesis of sun and stars puts Shade in some
respect into a Thyatira category, for Revelation's fourth
vial is poured out upon the Sun, and Thyatira says "I will
kill her children with death" - which did happen to Hazel.
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net




More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list