NPPF: Commentary to lines 47-48

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 5 of ?

> realistic rose petals cut out of
> rodstein and large, almost palpable
> thorns cut out of green marble. Into
> these roses and thorns there walked a
> black shadow: a tall, pale, long-nosed,
> dark-haired young minister whom I had
> seen around once or twice strode out of
> the vestry and without seeing me
> stopped in the middle of the court.

This reflexive rose invaginates the thorn.
And I need not say it myself, for today's
net wanderings have yielded another fellow
of the same ilk to say so authoritatively:

1. Establishing an AF fellow:

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/definition.htm
Andrew Marvell. The Definition of Love.
 MY Love is of a birth as rare
 As 'tis, for object, strange and high ;
 It was begotten by Despair,
 Upon Impossibility.

2. On (reflexive) phallic thorns:

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coronet.htm
Andrew Marvell. The Coronet
 WHEN for the thorns with which I long, too long,
 With many a piercing wound,
 My Saviour's head have crowned,

3. on reflexive receptive roses:

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/dewdrop.htm
Andrew Marvell: On a Drop of Dew
 SEE, how the orient dew,
 Shed from the bosom of the morn
 Into the blowing roses,
 (Yet careless of its mansion new,
 For the clear region where 'twas born,)
 Round in itself incloses ;

4. Furthermore, one readable as FF:

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/younglove.htm
Marvell. Young Love.
 Come little infant, love me now,
 While thine unsuspected years
 Clear thine aged father's brow
 From cold jealousy and fears.
...
 While our sportings are as free
 As the nurse's with the child.
...
 Thus as kingdoms, frustrating
 Other titles to their crown,
 In the cradle crown their king,
 So all foreign claims to drown ;

> Guilty disgust contorted his thin lips.
> He wore spectacles. His clenched hands
> seemed to be gripping invisible prison
> bars. But there is no bound to the
> measure of grace which man may be able
> to receive. All at once his look
> changed to one of rapture and
> reverence.

I of course read prison in FF, remedy in AF.
Of course, K cannot see it, on his own face.

> I had never seen such a
> blaze of bliss before but was to
> perceive something of that splendor, of
> that spiritual energy and divine
> vision, now, in another land, reflected
> upon the rugged and homely face of old
> John Shade. How glad I was that the
> vigils I had kept all through the
> spring had prepared me to observe him
> at his miraculous midsummer task!

In AF as SUN, transit of, noon ~ midsummer.
I was impressed by MND as a metanoia, but
I thought it not the one of AF, but later:
androgynous Pan (SS, self-suck1er of paps),
because of (hr:dy :: mo:yr) :: male:female.
(Or vice versa?)

more tonight...
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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