TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 4: flawed assumptions

[Glenn Scheper]

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html

 that there is a flaw not only in him,
 but also,
 we feel,
 in the entire set of assumptions that
 have allowed the image to exist.

The flaw in Blaisdell is merely, "the facts".

But flawed assumptions address why Blaisdell
should have any image in Wild West magazines.

This is obviously about idolatry.

A shaman uses a fetish to access transcendent
reality, which is beyond his immediate grasp.

The magazine as fetish brings to imagination
transcendent inconceivable possibilities, be
they true or false, like Blaisdell the hero,
or today announcing two-headed alien babies.

Of course life, like burgeoning soap bubbles,
must push forth. My youthful deception was
that I was learning what really IS; filling
out the structure of all facts until full.

Apparent closure is our ultimate deception.
The boundary always yields further horizons;
such I think Nietzsche meant by his eternal
return: the return of a new edge, new lack.

Our knowledge is the fetish to imagine past.
But so many accept the convergent solution,
Hegel's synthesis interpolating endpoints.

Replacing interpolation with extrapolation
yields the productive psychosis. I remember
when the psychiatrist asked me the meaning
of "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Well,
beyond a somatic component due to freedom,
my own failure to be planted, I described
for him the rolling of Earth around Sun.
I was admitted.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
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