TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 7: abyss sense: 6 of 10

[Glenn Scheper]

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

I cited Ozymandias in my home page as yet another prophetic
example describing the recent World Trade Center disaster.
But as I re-read it, and knowing Shelley is also my fellow,
I can see it now as a description of the autofellatio pose.

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You may recognize this inverted mountain in the opening of Dante's
Divine Commedy, as in the city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven,
or again, in both the craig and pecker of Tantalus. Smarandache
does show existential crisis, as is concommitant to autofellatio.

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I stumbled upon first book of _The Faerie Queene_, and want to
quote right away the sequence describing autofellatio. Note spewing
of black, not white for semen, as in Baudelaire's _Carrion_.
Later he meets an old man, as did Dante Virgil, and Zarathustra his
unnamed saint. Yet later he lays with a phantasy of, not his lady.
(Who is this lady? Like Poe's Lenore? Dante's Beatrice?) Clearly I
must find the time to puzzle through this whole tale.

No wonder: _The Faerie Queene_ is about King Arthur, a
heroic tale I already recognized as relating to autofellatio.
Edmund Spenser tells his purpose: a story that will train for
nobility, yet he claims most will not understand his examples.
Here he names fellows I know, and other names I never heard:

... suspition of present time. In which I haue followed all
the antique Poets historicall, first Homere, who in the
Persons of Agamemnon and Vlysses hath ensampled a good
gouernour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the
other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was
to doe in the person of Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised
them both in his Orlando: and lately Tasso disseuered them
againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that
part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a
priuate man, coloured in his Rinaldo: The other named
Politice in his Godfredo.

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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.

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"Only mouth hast fire" reminds me of alchemy's hermeneutic vessel,
described by Vaughn as I recall, wherein I recognized the mouth, as
used in autofellatio: The stomach contains hydrochloric acid, which
can "burn stone." I say such is the referent of bible brimstone.
"Could city came" led me to mention that the spritual Jerusalem,
as I also read in Franz Kafka, is the set of all such metanoiacs,
those hagios, the saints, who are a dispersed city of themselves.

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I have long recognized from my hermeneutics how the Muslims came to
be far from Christians, per Surah 2, The Cow, saying: 249. When Talut
set forth with the armies, he said: "Allah will test you at the
stream: if any drinks of its water, he goes not with my army:
Only those who taste not of it go with me: A mere sip out of the
hand is excused." That river is of course, the "Old Man River."

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Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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