NPPF: Commentary to lines 47-48

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 7 of ?

"I stole through the shrubbery to the rear of their house.
...
Sybil was alternately huddle-shaking and blowing her nose;
John's face was all blotchy and wet.
...
[Sybil] at once left her perch, closed the window
...
[He] continues to clean the bowl of his pipe as fiercely
as if it were my heart he was hollowing out.
...
Dear Jesus, Do something."


Not bad enough to impute knowledge of AF to VN, but now I
want to suggest an anal interest, as in the GR 'Streets'
sequence. (Three tries failed before. I'll repost today.)
If the good shepherd coming in by the front door is AF,
then sodomy might read as a thief coming in by a window.

One of the last anecdotes of the reverend I fellowshipped
with, was about a farmer, who prayed "out on the back 40."
Now it was probably my loose associations that caused me
to dwell on every word choice, mining alternate meanings,
sub-story lines, conversations with angels from his words.
But he also lauded turning from "Latin to Greek" readings,
which word, Greek, of course is suggestive of anal-lingus.

Like the long-nosed preacher earlier in this same section,
this nose of Sybil seems to me to really be a penis, and
this whole line describes AF, blow being a slang fellate.

There's many poets naming females that seem to be refering
in fact to their own phallus. Choice among them is Dante's
phallus IS Beatrice as described in Vita Nuova, section 5:

"It happened one day that this most gracious of ladies was
sitting in a place where words about the Queen of Glory
were being spoken, and I was where I could behold my bliss.
Halfway between her and me, in a direct line of vision, sat
a gentlewoman of a very pleasing appearance, who glanced at
me frequently as if bewildered by my gaze, which seemed to be
directed at her. And many began to notice her glances in my
direction, and paid close attention to them and, as I left
this place, I heard someone near me say: "See what a devastating
effect that lady has had on that man." And, when her name was
mentioned, I realized that the lady referred to was the one
whose place had been half-way along the direct line which
extended from the most gracious Beatrice, ending in my eyes.
Then I was greatly relieved, feeling sure that my glances had
not revealed my secret to others that day. At once I thought
of making this lovely lady a screen to hide the truth, and so
well did I play my part that in a short time the many people
who talked about me were sure they knew my secret."

Of course, all of Vita Nuova is an AF transformation treatise.

A striking visual exposition is given by one illustration at:
http://www.banger.com/banger/spare/focus/focint1.html 
> The Focus of Life By Austin Osman Spare 
> Preface - The Mutterings of Aaos
wherein the reflexive word made flesh (here a disjoint trope
of a codex replacing, emphasizing biblion is scroll is penis)
is spoken/written/heard to vivify the memory of a prior gaze.

Birds are one of the most frequent and stable metaphors of the
act of autofellatio, both in scripture and among other authors.
That is because, as Atlas shoulders the earth, his genitals are
hanging overhead, in heaven, which is sky, like a bird flying.
In synecdoche, taking part as whole, the AUTOFELLATOR IS BIRD.
Note that the ancients' eagle or vulture names mean "gnasher".

Like Poe's familiar Raven, Yeat's Falcon, and Wordsworth's
 Oh when I have hung
 Above the ravens nest,
 have hung alone ...
 With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind
 Blow through my ears,

Shade's penis is Sybil, leaving her perch, which is his mouth.
That Sybil closed the window, makes Shade an auto-sodomizer,
which is also hollowing out the pipe bowl--pipe as AF trope.

I can really relate to the "Dear Jesus, Do something," as many
times I have hoped for a supernatural adjustment of ordinary
suffering, a cataclysm that will repair essential abjection.

In one of those moments, I conceived to curse rather than bless,
by auto-sodomy, which initiated a complex sequence corresponding
to Rev 14:14, and granted some broader horizon of interpretation.

Rev 14:14: "And I looked, and behold a white cloud,
and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man,
having on his head a golden crown,
and in his hand a sharp sickle."

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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