where the writer ends & the drugs begin...

[Glenn Scheper]

To tie together the Baudelaire and Smile threads,
I posit that all whom are essentially melancholic
due to abjection by a taboo of monadic sexuality,
like Baudelaire and many other poets and prophets;
an overturning will show to have divine sexuality.

To assess whether the 9-11 WTC collapse finishes
the cataclysm, or is only the shot over the bow,
let me quickly interpret a short book, Zephaniah:

> I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place

Capitalism, for Baal is a war/nature god of increase.

> for the day of the LORD is at hand:
> for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice,

A quickie, "one hour", and violent.

> I punish all those that leap on the threshold,
> which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Leap etc. sounds like that entering through windows,
but violence and deceit may be the even distribution
of resentment wherefore capitalism is a "final system".

> and a great crashing from the hills.

WTC satisfies many mountains / hills.

> for all the merchant people are cut down;
> all they that bear silver are cut off.

Typical of WTC activity, full of treasures,
like the ancient walled seacoast city Tyre;
Or like Jericho, whose walls fell, and whose
treasure was "dedicated", not for booty.

> I will search Jerusalem with candles,

the body search. I say (big Eureka, merging Rev. 3!)
that the post-cataclysm WTC / NY *IS* "New Jerusalem".

> and punish the men that are settled on their lees:
> that say in their heart,
> The LORD will not do good,
> neither will he do evil.

Non-gnositic Cartesian error, the scientific method,
so-called enlightenment, logical positivists, etc.

> a day of clouds and thick darkness,
> 1:16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities,
> and against the high towers.

The sky 9-11 was beautiful and clear. Can the clouds
of the concrete dust and fire satisfy this prophecy,
or is yet a future day in view? It concurs on tower.

> and their blood shall be poured out as dust,

"Clouds" of concrete "dust" satisfy many prophecies,
especially one of the Lord "coming in the clouds".

> 2:3 Seek ye the LORD,
> all ye meek of the earth,
> which have wrought his judgment;
> seek righteousness,
> seek meekness:
> it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.

These are occasional ontically abject persons, the lambs,
like Emily Dickinson, Antonin Artaud, many melancholics.

> 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
> and destroy Assyria;

Although tempted here to read-in Bush's warful response,
nothing else in the context carries me away from the WTC.

The moabites, descendents of one incestuous daughter of Lot
who left sodom, are elsewhere said to cling to the edges of
the pit, another trope of the WTC on fire and falling. Here
Ethiopia was mentioned, and the two witnesses (= WTC again)
are said to be slain in a city, spiritually Sodom and Egypt.

The WTC contains the forms of so many apocalyptic features
I think are merely labeled with middle-eastern place names.

> both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it;
> their voice shall sing in the windows;
> desolation shall be in the thresholds;
> for he shall uncover the cedar work.

Here again, bird as trope of plane.
We should re-read Poe's Raven.

> 3:6 I have cut off the nations:
> their towers are desolate;
> I made their streets waste,
> that none passeth by:
> their cities are destroyed,
> so that there is no man,
> that there is none inhabitant.
...
> for my determination is to gather the nations,
> that I may assemble the kingdoms,
> to pour upon them mine indignation,
> even all my fierce anger:
> for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

First He gathered "the nations"--into the WTC.

Where all-the-earth first forces a larger scope,
its impact is mollified by fire-of-my-jealousy,
which can be read non-literally.

> 3:11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings,
> wherein thou hast transgressed against me:

This applies to the abject monad, for whom Lacan explains, in
transgressing / becoming the law, the law command jouissance.

I recall how, elsewhere, the enemies would eat their own flesh,
not morbidly, but as that tantric "confession" of self-Christ.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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