D.H. Lawrence (whaddayu mean, NP?)

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 2 of 2.

Okay, everything I heard changes in light of the written word:

 Heartless-Heartless! He thinks it's so cool to be cold

 He never realized, the way love dies when you crucify it's soul

Yet truth is known to be in the true (Heart's lyrics are recognized),
even if I got the words wrong. One is crucified in auto-erotic death.


Love dies in the manner of Hamlet. Everything I read treats the
ghost as if it were some biological father of Hamlet, now dead,
and Claudius his brother. But Hamlet died in an act of self-love,
just like Oedipus, or Kafka's bug, or P or anybody's thanatoids.
The ghost is his self-father, a lost youth slain in autofellatio.

Whether (or both) Claudius his biological father abused him in a
perfect crime, a supposedly unrecoverable act of fillial fellatio
("a man and his father will go in to the same ~virgin"), or whether
merely this "just" father imposed such super-ego legalism that he
excluded every self-will, including assuredly any female coupling;
His biological father, called therein Claudius, is found guitly.


And I mention that to tie in this weekend's Derrida and Rilke....

>From post: Derrida's misreading of Marx

> The mystical character of the fetish,
> in the mark it leaves on the experience of the religious,
> is first of all a ghostly character"

What ghost? That one that religion cannot demonstrate to me?


>From post: Snappycrossdresser

> It is rather the deconstruction of the supernatural than
> its appearance in Pynchon's novels that makes him a pomo writer.
> He's following Rilke ...

See this image from http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/rilkebio.html:
http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/rilke-passbild-1919.html

Those hypertrophied lip elevator muscles only mean one thing to me.
It only takes the first line to recognize a fellow tantric gnostic:
> "Who, if I cried out, might hear me -- among the ranked Angels?"

No one else can hear because the cry is that ineffable Word--Self.

> the supernatural ... is only one of those logocentric
> Master Narratives (God, History, Truth)
> that is deconstructed in postmodern literature.

They only think they are deconstructing something important.
They have accepted the confused logos, a domain of knowledge,
and rejected the real Logos, the self-referential carnal Word.
They can't begin to give meaning to the first line of John:

 In the beginning was the Word,
 and the Word was with God,
 and the Word was God.

Heidegger fell for that one.

> What kind of work would deconstructing the supernatural be
> for a postmodernest? That was something the Enlightenment did
> and without the help of post-structuralism.

No they didn't. The enlightenment only showed how to use the
scientific method to reality test hypotheses, making an area
of successes held in suspense as to truth, out of which the
obvious failures could be excluded. Every reasoning beyond
such a horizon is speculative and suspect.

> As I see it,
> the supernatural (or even a "modicum of enchantment")
> isn't an ingredient in a postmodern recipe:
> to define/label something as supernatural is to occupy a
> position defined as rational(ist).

The rationalist gambles to speculate beyond that horizon.

> Foundationalism was defunct well before post-structuralism
> came along.

I would like to see a new foundationalism that now includes
the excluded auto-erotic domain. If I could only draw up a
sufficient lexicon to give you of the exteriority its model,
you could test the model against poet/prophets of all ages.

> If one has faith in,
> and is convinced by,
> Derridean methodology,
> every >
> binary opposition can be deconstructed including >
> deconstruction/logocentrism.
> One example is not better than any other >
> in demonstrating language breakdown or apparent breakdown.

This resembles that Pauline opposition across an excluded center.
When you bring back the center, deconstruction will be moot, and
logocentrism will disappear, being supplanted by the truth of God.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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