GRGR: Jessica Swanlake

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 2 08:23:53 CST 2005


Part 6.

Sorry. I forgot her lover's name when quoting Proverbs 7:1-27:

I said,
Now this block ties up harlots, words, lips, darts, & death.
It is worth a lengthy quotation to foresee Pointsman's fate.

Rather,
Now this block ties up harlots, words, lips, darts, & death.
It is worth a lengthy quotation to foresee *** Roger's *** fate.

Wait, it's confusing. Is Beaver==Jeremy or Roger the husband?

        ---

> Roger Mexico is now going through much the same thing with Jessica,
> the Other Chap in this case being known as Beaver.

> never so cheery as at the spectacle of another's misfortune,
> rooting for Beaver and all that he, like Clive, stands for,
> to win out.

>        ---

> She was a thin,
> speedy stalk of a girl named Scorpia Mossmoon.

> Her husband Clive was an expert in plastics,
> working out of Cambridge for Imperial Chemicals.

        ---

So Beaver(Jeremy) is the husband. Roger Mexico is the lover.

The comparison with Swan Lake makes Roger Mexico like its
Prince Siegfried, loving Swan Queen Odette, but tricked
into declaring love for evil twin Odile. (Watch for it.)

Odette was transformed into a bird by an evil sorcerer.

I propose the evil sorcerer stands for her husband.

Her conversion to bird (and Jessica's, thus bird terms:
feather in GR; bird in Prov 7:23; recalling Rev 12:14,
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle)
pertain to a combination of varied sexual conjunctions.

And GR: a look from Luba suggesting falconhood jesses

The harlotry terms of Prov.7 fit an adulterous affair.
Later in GR, she can be saved by a man's undying love.

I just read that, can't find it in the 208 mentions of love,
or other words I remember reading. The vast number of things
in GR reminds me, I walked into a forest, examine one branch,
and now am trying to use it to describe the rest of a forest.

 "The War"
 was the condition she needed for being with Roger.

 "Peace"
 allows her to leave him.

(cf. small doses of homeopathic peace?)

Anyway, not to let this past weekend's successes erode,
I laid down with my wife, and fondly caressed her bosom.
Immediately, I got a mental image of a dart, as standing
in a target surface, just the long, silvery point, and a
brassy "nose", but right at their junction was some dark
feature, like indistinct written words.

That reminds me that the "book" (scroll) I often map upon
a penis (scroll-like), but I did once have a vision of a
female bosom, and in the bosom were two cylinders, which
touched at their midpoints at right angles, and suggested
to me two spindles of thread, or save for the right-angle
impossibility, the two cylinders used to wind up a scroll.

Taking a "little book" from the right hand of the angel
correlates with my discovery of male pap self-suckling.

        ---

Roger, apparently fuming, in a sudden awareness, thought:
(The parentheses below are in the GR text)

> Nothing is beyond Pointsman,
> he's worse than old Pudding was,
> no shame at all.

> He would use anyone Gloaming,
> Katje Borgesius,
> Pirate Prentice,
> no one is (Jessica)
> exempt from his (Jessica?)
> Machiavellian
> Jessica.

> Oh.

> Yes ofcourseofcourse Mexico you fucking idiot...

Aha! Pointsman may be like the evil sorcerer?

Elsewhere in GR:

> not believing a word of it,
> Machiavellian and youthful,
> not quite ripe yet for paranoia,


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavelli

 As a theorist, Machiavelli was the key figure
 in realist political theory crucial to European
 statecraft during the Renaissance.

 Il Principe (The Prince) was written in an attempt
 to return to politics as an advisor to Lorenzo Medici.
 It is therefore not considered to represent
 Machiavelli's true beliefs.

 ...from whose conduct and fate he drew the moral
 that it is far better to earn the confidence of
 the people than to rely on fortresses.
 This is a very noticeable principle in Machiavelli,

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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