TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 7: abyss sense: 3 of 10
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 17 05:10:16 CDT 2004
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html
A P.K. Dick story was the inspiration of the movie, "The Matrix,"
which so resembles the alternate reality found through metanoia.
"And the cipher was the metaphor type, utilizing poetic allusion."
-- P.K. Dick novel
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This forum appears to have a lot of Emily Dickinson scholars,
with 3700 posts way back to 1995. Here are some highlights:
http://lal.cs.byu.edu/mlists/emweb/emweb.html
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The archives mention that Emily Dickinson recognizes Tennyson,
also Coleridge, from title _Charge of the Light Brigade_;
and (whom)? from title _Guinivere_.
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Emily Dickinson and I both recognize a fellow in Shakespeare:
"... she read Shakespeare, and thought to herself, 'Why is any
other book needed?'"
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In _Emily Dickinson's Mirror, Amherst_, Donald Revel applies
fresh words that are tropes of a vulva, suggesting he has insight:
"...a map of disappearing islands ... mouthed into so strict a
frame ... oracular strait emptiness a hand's breadth across...."
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Walt Whitman, whom I recognize, and Wallace Stevens, whom I also
recognize, are mentioned in web pages along with Emily Dickinson.
Nearby is mention of Robert Frost, whom I have not investigated.
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Susan Howe, in _My Emily Dickinson_, compares Emily Dickinson
to Gertrude Stein, so I'll have to check out both those new names,
for Susan Howe alludes to hidden meanings in William Carlos Williams,
who also looks like a prospective fellow. She mentions Whitman
whom I recognized, and Thoreau that I haven't read, and always
holds the tenor of misunderstood abstractions, knowing metanoia
is elevated only in a patriarchal viewpoint: "In a world of exaltation
of his imagination, feminine inscription seems single and sudden."
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Another web page mentions that Emily Dickinson admired the poetry
of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Keats.
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Yet another web page says Emily Dickinson admired Emily Bronte.
Oh, in fact, the following web page is VERY interesting, having
much to say about Emily Dickinson's existential plight. Emily is
seen here to occupy a rational, albeit different, space. Emily
Dickinson's poetry is compared to Pablo Picasso'a art, of whom
I believe that, when I research him, I will find Pablo Picasso
to be another christic fellow. Is not the following quote about
her father a declaration of our common mystical insight that a
covert paternal fellatio was forced upon Emily during her infancy,
as also happened to Horus, and is shown in Hamlet, and by Jesus,
and by me--that is, if I have correctly diagnosed all the symbols?
"Blown to atoms" is exactly how I felt during my first psychosis:
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Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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