TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 7: abyss sense: 4 of 10

[Glenn Scheper]

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

This quote brings someone named Shelley to my attention: "Lift
not the painted veil which those who live Call Life; though unreal
shapes be pictured there, And it but mimic all we would believe ..."
Also, a later post shows Shelley knew that the Lyre is the Poet.

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_The Second Coming_ by W.B.Yeats has "Turning and turning
in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer."
Learning that gyres are spirals compares well to other spirals
said to be in Dante, ploding in and out of hell, according to some
book I am reading, I think it is _Poetics of Conversion in Dante_,
but I have yet to read Dante. That also relates to a strong helix
experience (like passing through a birth canal) in my own tantric
Cernunnos-like actions, which completed my lost in Hades stage.

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One poster tells of a poem, _In the Room_, by James Thomson
which reminds me of Kafka's Metamorphosis: "The image is of
a male suicide lying alone and undiscovered on his bed.

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Another poem and a possible fellow is _Thing Language_ by Jack Spicer:
"The death That young men hope for. Aimlessly It pounds the shore."
Also note that Spicer treats of the Grail topic.

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The same poster says "Coleridge quotes Virgil" and I've heard of
Coleridge before, but this quote belies Coleridge's ignorance: "we
ought not to pursue it with a view of detecting its secret sources"

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Hmmm: I'll have to look into William Faulkner: "...the liquorish and
ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any darkened hallway of this
earthly tenement," quoted from _Absalom, Absalom!_.

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Then I added my own post to the ED forum, including these ideas:
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Like ED, I stood a loaded Atom Bomb, and was blown to powder.
Most encountering such a Christ metamorphosis do not survive:
"A few -- behold thee -- Smile -- and alter -- and prattle --
and die --"

Psychosis stems from solving all religion, and so its etiology,
wondering if anything remains. Emily suggests against nihilism:
"At least, it solaces to know That there exists -- a Gold --
Altho' I prove it, just in time It's distance -- to behold --"

Though God forbid it, Emily did lift the lid--unto Ecstasy.
She became the very taboo totem that hystericizes religion.
I would call ED the Christ type, but ED's own use shows me
that Christ is a gendered term. So ED is Shekinah, Madonna.

Reading all your 5-year archive has expanded my understanding.
Let me reflect to you that which you have contributed novelly:
The election of the saints is not an election as in exclusion,
but a becoming late earlier, dying before one's time, tasting
death for the benefit of all, by hanging around to exposit it.

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Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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