MMV: Context

[Glenn Scheper]

>[Siegel]'s clearly set up as an asshole nobody identifies with.

>It's almost as if Pynchon is describing himself and his own
>chosen world and wishing to destroy it all out of a deep sense
>of disatasfaction.

> ... to identify with a mythological figure who feeds
> on human flesh. Few of us are in danger of identifying
> with either Loon or this mythic monster.

>With its ostentatious and often gratuitous references to ...
>the story suffers from precisely the same pretentiousness
>that it satirises...

>I don't think that a postmodern short story requires ...

I find juvenile MMIV to be a most excellent and revelatory text,
before Pynchon learned so well to hide the one core metaphor that
he himself declared he would spin stories about, yet never reveal.

I identify with all of Siegel, Loon, and Pynchon; Not Lepescu.

As shared before, I had my psychosis after autofellatio.
Years since, I have "recovered the author" in all mythology,
gathering up my recognizable fellows--same ones as Pynchon.

Let me recall for you the coming destruction, and its remedy:

31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day,
and I will forsake them,
and I will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured,
and many evils and troubles shall befall them;
so that they will say in that day,
Are not these evils come upon us,
because our God is not among us?

4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God:
Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
God: 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh is not of God:
and this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof ye have heard that it should come;
and even now already is it in the world.

22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say,
Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will,
let him take the water of life freely.

So Pynchon is not postmodern, in that he has recovered the
icon, autofellatio, to ground all mythology and religion.\
This is not modernism, grounded in Cartesian doubt, but
romantic (of poets) or transcendental (of philosophers).

I have explained some symbols of MMIV before, but now you
tell me siegel means sigil, mark? Well that's a lot like
the Word of God (the autofellator, speaking himself). But
if erection is name, and ejaculation is word, then a mark
might be a name-less word, like a son fellated his father,
having not the name. That evil father would be Lepescu, a
pig hung from the key/cornerstone; replaced by spirit when
Siegel ousts the father, fitting many christian metaphors
of the "kingdom" of heaven, taken by force, weeds in the
field among the good seed, etc.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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