Black... & NPPF Comm3: Psyche

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 12 17:15:49 CDT 2003


> (And I heard as it were, the noise of thunder;
> One of the four beasts saying, "Come and see."
> And I saw.
> And behold a white horse....)
> ...
> [The last song written by Johnny Cash]

You know, this is one of those gestures from the simulacrum,
an attempt to invoke the perceived potency and importance of
something showing no evidence of any clue to their referents.

Near the end of my dysfunctional years, due to my psychosis
that immediately proved to me I am Jesus, but dysfunctional,
I was fellowshipping with a Reverend, who kept giving me his
pocket bibles, and exhorting me to learn Greek and look into
Revelation. Only in hindsight do a recognize him a tantrist.

The first Aha! in Revelation was that the four horse colors
matched something in my own life: The colors of or covering
the paps of four whores that I had visited in the U.S. Army.

The first whore wore a white bra, and she raged as a lion.
The second whore had proud crimson teats, docile as a calf.
The third whore had almost black paps, and slight mustache.
The fourth whore with aureola nearly pale as surround, atop
as eagle tried to defraud me manually, hence "the voice of".

Since that time I've taken an exceedingly personal interest
in the Book of Revelation, and riddled out many metaphors.
The improbability of my being that one epochal individual
described therein causes me to treat the book as formulae,
comparable to rules programming a computer expert system:
Not likely given in advance by some pre-human entity, but
likely arising autopoetically, and congealed by survival.
The fact that a certain set of facts could be prescribed
from the past only requires one QM-reasonable ability:
that of all multiple future world states, the single one
that survived applauds the work; all others stay silent.

My initial metaphor mappings were based on the slightest
of correspondences in those four encounters and my other
life events, but every freeway needs an onramp, and now
my direction is taken more by correlating prior authors.

So, to comment on another thread, on venus-cupid-psyche:

It's Ephesus' rider has the bow, the category I believe
describes males suffering from MC, maternal cunni1ingus.
If a sword is male, the arc of the mons veneris and its
clitoris are clearly the bow and arrow. And Cupid's bow
and arrow belong to his mother. But only apon future AF
does this pre-Ephesus infant become that angel Ephesus.

If the father also abuses the male infant, it moves into
the pre-Laodicean category; Any future AF will "give him
the bright and morning star," Viz., Venus, his own mother,
and for me, triggered a rape-mother kill-father psychosis.

It is precisely this confusion I think makes Hegel say:
 "For the completed deed is the removal of the opposition
 between the knowing self and the reality over against it.
 The ethical consciousness cannot disclaim the crime and its
 guilt. The deed consists in setting in motion what was
 unmoved, and in bringing out what in the first instance lay
 shut up as a mere possibility, and thereby linking on the
 unconscious to the conscious, the non-existent to the
 existent. In this truth, therefore, the deed comes to the
 light; - it is something in which a conscious element is
 bound up with what is unconscious, what is peculiarly one's
 own with what is alien and external: - it is an essential
 reality divided in sunder, whose other aspect consciousness
 experiences and also finds to be its own aspect, but as a
 power violated by its doing, and roused to hostility
 against it."

I suspect Psyche is not a female suitor of the pre-Ephesus son,
but the son himself due to AF: for again, as with Kinbote and
Shade in PF: Psyche may not see the face of Cupid -- his own!

Cf. Moses in Exodus (with rock=head):
33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no
      man see me, and live.

33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou
      shalt stand upon a rock:

33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I
      will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with
      my hand while I pass by:

33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back
      parts: but my face shall not be seen.
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
Copyleft(!) Forward freely.




More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list