TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 1: "Camelot" - Tennyson
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 9 09:07:48 CDT 2004
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html
And this one more...
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/idyl-grl.htm
_Tennyson's The Holy Grail_
the Holy Grail Menu of The Camelot Project at the University
in an abbey far away From Camelot, there, and not long afte
then began To darken under Camelot; whence the King Looked u
or all the sacred mount of Camelot, And all the dim rich cit
nces broken--never yet Had Camelot seen the like, since Arth
brother, had you known our Camelot, Built by old kings, age
Aha! Tennyson's Grail. So Camelot IS about autofellatio!
And Camelot sounds a lot like "came-a-lot".
In my searching for tantric abject fellows, Tennyson matched.
The rest from my old web page THEWORD.HTM:
The archives mention that Emily Dickinson recognizes Tennyson,
also Coleridge, from title Charge of the Light Brigade;
and (whom)? from title Guinivere.
This poem, Tiresias, addressed to E. Fitzgerald, is Tennyson's clear
confession of autofellatio, apparently following upon counsel of Fitzgerald.
Earlier words showed icons of birds, and made me see that the apostle
Peter's dropped sheet full of food may also be an autofellatio story.
We recognize Shakespeare, but I had not noticed Pythagoras among us.
http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/TENNTIRESIAS.HTML
Tiresias
And once for ten long weeks I tried
Your table of Pythagoras,
- And seem'd at first "a thing enskied,"
As Shakespeare has it, airy-light
To float above the ways of men,
Then fell from that half-spiritual height
Chill'd, till I tasted flesh again
(on cinderella:)
If autofellatio brings the self-father, and self-sucking at one's
own male paps incorporates the self-mother, why would there be any
reversal for the female? The young woman is therefore in flight
from an image of her own self-father arising in autocunnilingus.
How about sleeping beauty, poisoned by a hag's (mother's?) apple,
but awakened by a lover's kiss? The maleness of this prince too
may be the well-tempered androgyny arising from autocunnilingus.
Adding to the same idea, I have read that the name of Penelope,
the wife of Odysseus, translates as "she whose face is veiled".
The Shekhinah is the feminine aspect of God, said to cover the
earth, also to be like a tabernacle, which means a tent, as is
also the appearance of the two labia majora covering one's face.
That is again the horned disk over the head of Isis, and she is
crowned with a throne, for she is her own throne, reflexively.
The Holy Grail is a confusing tale if related to autofellatio,
but makes immediate sense with autocunnilingus as its theme:
http://www.avalon.ndo.co.uk/tennyson/08.htm
Tennyson - The Holy Grail - illustrated by les still
"O Father!" asked the maiden, "might it come
To me by prayer and fasting?" "Nay," said he,
"I know not, for thy heart is pure as snow."
And so she prayed and fasted, till the sun
Shone, and the wind blew, through her, and I thought
She might have risen and floated when I saw her.
`For on a day she sent to speak with me.
And when she came to speak, behold her eyes
Beyond my knowing of them, beautiful,
Beyond all knowing of them, wonderful,
Beautiful in the light of holiness.
And "O my brother Percivale," she said,
"Sweet brother, I have seen the Holy Grail:
For, waked at dead of night, I heard a sound
As of a silver horn from o'er the hills
Blown, and I thought, `It is not Arthur's use
To hunt by moonlight;' and the slender sound
As from a distance beyond distance grew
Coming upon me--O never harp nor horn,
Nor aught we blow with breath, or touch with hand,
Was like that music as it came; and then
Streamed through my cell a cold and silver beam,
And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail,
Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive,
Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed
With rosy colours leaping on the wall;
And then the music faded, and the Grail
Past, and the beam decayed, and from the walls
The rosy quiverings died into the night.
>From any woman's perspective, her silver horn is "o'er the hills"
of her breasts, whereas from the perspective of her male cunnilictor,
her face is comparable to the moon rising over those her same hills.
I may be confusing two myths, but I seem to recall that the holy
grail object was also described as a fleece, rather than a chalice.
That is more representative of the female vulva than a man's member.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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