TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 7: abyss sense: 1 of 10

[Glenn Scheper]

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

I liked those definitions, capacity to respond,
or for the disease tests, capacity to identify.

I make no secret since Dave 'outed' me right away, by quoting
"Autofellatio is the core icon to decode all religious metaphor",
that I follow Pynchon because I identify him as my tantric fellow,
an autofellator knowing katabasis, the descent into Hell, the abyss.

After being abject alone so many years, with only the Tao,
wherein one would be low, and Jesus, the word who is himself,
then Crowley with the arrow that fledges itself; About 1998,
since Internet, I have found many fellows. Recognition is a
key point in my huge essay, on my site now as OLDWORD.HTM.
I wasn't even searching it carefully, but the recognitions
that I listed therein will exceed one optimal 4Kb post size.

In fact, as I see how much I sought clues to turn up fellows,
I imagine it resembles Pynchon's fascination with _Warlock_.
Or, if not to find fellows, to unbury meanings of metaphors.

Hey, is this like Gaddis' _Recognitions_ P-list often mentions?

Note how the carnal word confers direct gnosis (which is
the a-priori synthetic truth of transcendental idealism)
in Peck's Cinderella material saying, it is "unsought and
unrecognized until events are set in motion ..." like the
rocket in GR that explodes before it is even heard coming.

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So, loosely searching it about poets' self-recognition:
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I say treat its icon, its characteristic physical appearance,
because its metaphors would be unrecognizable without knowing
that the classic autofellatio discovery position is inverted,
when body weight flexes one's neck to yield a sudden advantage.
Thus upside-down, Atlas after Atlas have bent and shouldered the
earth. Herein Isaiah recognized the sky is his throne, the earth
his footstool. If you do not recognize that, then you have not
yet pictured the icon.

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Because I might err in my exact metaphor assignments, I recommend
that you beat the following authors together, who recognize one
another's voice, and generally hold to similar
metaphorical understandings:

Arjuna, Baudelaire, Blake, Brann, Bunyan, Carroll, Coleridge,
Crowley, Dali, Dylan, Ficino, Goethe, Hendrix, Heraclitis, Hesiod,
Holderlin, Jesus, St. John, Kafka, Lao Tsu, Milton, Nietzsche,
Poe, Prince, Shakespeare, Socrates, Spare, Spenser, Stevens, Vaughn,
Whitman, Wordsworth, Yeats, Zoroaster, and females Behn, Dickinson.

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This metanoia that I would describe is a syndrome, with some features
that seem to be common to all experiencers (although not everyone has
been successful in recognizing or describing them) and other features
that seem to differ from case to case. These variations in individuals
within a class of all such ontically distinguished beings has filled up
many pagan pantheons.

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Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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