([NP]) Hollander

[Glenn Scheper]

> http://www.vheissu.org/art/art_eng_dante_hollander.htm
> Thomas Pynchon: An American Dante?

> He identifies other authors of encyclopedic narratives as Rabelais,
> Cervantes, Goethe, Melville, and Joyce, implying that Pynchon
> deserves to be in their company.

But of course! They're all on my list of men who demonstrate the
metaphoric forms and adjunct metamorphosis borne of autofellatio,
save Rabelais, whom I shall have to investigate--looks promising:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12619b.htm
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Francois Rabelais
His strange fictions seem to be a veil behind which
he conceals his ideas, for he desires his readers
to imitate the dog to whom a bone has been thrown
and who must break it in order to reach the marrow.

> Bloom believes nearly all "strong poets" go through stages on the way
> to identifying their literary predecessors and internalizing them so
> that each can evolve an individuated voice.

So much so that, in the past few years I've used Internet access
to find my "fellows". I called this phase by a Revelation phrase:
that "the books were opened, and the dead were judged out of the
things which were written therein, according to their works."

> Bloom follows the Freudian model of the resolution of the father-son
> Oedipal struggle.

But the Oedipal struggle is just this: That a wet-dream in navel,
and later, autofellatio, avail the son of the name of the father.
Thus, he raped his mother in his own mouth, and kills his father.

That the imagery mimics filial fellatio makes one ponder whether
dad could really have done that: Father and son go into the same
maiden (virgin), that is, the son.

BTW, I have just within days had this insight how the name differs
from the word: The name is one's erection, but the word is coming.
Lacan would be proud.

> Tessera, which is completion and antithesis; I take the word not from
> mosaic-making, where it is still used, but from the ancient mystery
> cults, where it meant a token of recognition, the fragment say of a
> small pot which with the other fragments would reconstitute the vessel.

Yes, it's Oedipa Mass recovering the hidden thread of truth. Or from
a signal analysis perspective, it is like using auto-correlation over
time, or over authors, to recover the signal lost beneath the noise.

> The Wayvone villa consists of eight levels built into a mountainside,
> as in Purgatorio where the mountain has seven (for contemplating each
> of the Deadly Sins) levels toward the eighth, or Edenic paradise,
> from whence purged souls ascend to heaven.

But this is a reflection of the eternal verities of our being:
the Jewish heptad, which I say is an Pharonic ogdoad, less one.

> Dante;s greatness, Harold Bloom avers, lies in his boldness as a poet,
> in his nearly heretical assertion that through Beatrice--his childhood
> love and literary creation, and not through the Virgin or Christ himself;
> therefore through the creator of Beatrice, through him, Dante--lies
> the path to God ... or Hell. The second coming is at hand;

Clearly, in _New Life_, Dante exposits the intensity of seeing that
autofellatio provides, he looks past his penis as the fetish to see
deeper into the target woman. Like A.O.Spare's illustration in his
_Focus of Life_, of a codex hanging where biblion would be phallic
pun, to see the woman made nude in the background between his legs.

Doing this on the carnal level is mere practice for the spiritual.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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