NP: Dan Brown _Da Vinci Code_

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 2 of 2.

All this data mining: (Da Vinci Code), (Dan Brown);
And I haven't seen a word yet out of his own mouth.

It was a single sentence out of GR that rang true:
that made me must go find out about GR and Pynchon.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/september2003/feature1.htm

> 'The Grail,'
> Langdon said,
> 'is symbolic of the lost goddess.

> When Christianity came along,
> the old pagan religions did not die easily.

> Legends of chivalric quests for the Holy Grail
> were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find
> the lost sacred feminine.

> Knights who claimed to be 'searching for the
> chalice'
> were speaking in code as a way to protect
> themselves from a Church that had subjugated
> women,
> banished the Goddess,
> burned non-believers,
> and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred
> feminine.'

> ... claims that the Holy Grail was actually Mary Magdalene.


I know Jesus' phrase "she hath chosen this good part" is
directly mappable into the tantric domain, but not as you
imagine: She hath not chosen Jesus' good part, but Mary's
own good part, the part of an auto-erotic in which unity
there is neither male nor female, but being as of angels.

Here, Coleridge, male, intersubjectively demonstrates the
female autoerotic: The words belie the form and functions
and numinous qualities of the AC and her target AF lover:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Christabel.html

Dickinson, female, AC, frequently compares herself to AF,
often on trope of bird, a clear symbol in this pan-poetic,
pan-religious domain of fellator, but very often of an AF:
She shares only a crumb with the birds, not a loaf as the
lusty life of the majority; She watches as the bird bites
a worm in half, and eats the fellow, raw. Many more such.

Nabokov's WingStroke is a brilliant short story about AC,
with much domain symbolism true and perfect. His Despair,
I regret, is shelved with a post-it on an early page, but
begins to show the right concommitant melancholia upon AF.

Look at those hypertrophied lip elevator muscles!
Brown may be a fellow within this tantric domain:
        Author Bio + Pic:
http://www.answers.com/dan%20brown

However, our Pale Fire read showed Nabokov's interest in
the Primal Scene (the conception of oneself) in a mention
of the locked parent's bedroom door, the slide right into
the pool, and many other things I sense, but don't decode.

Similarly, Pynchon's MMIV--especially plain, but covered
over in GR and other texts (working his plan to operate
with a core metaphor he never reveals), are full of the
puzzlement, confusion, schizophrenia, or melancholia of
an AF, but apparently not all AF; specific to certain AF
lamb-kins who have a prior mapping of father upon self,
by the originary virginal wet-dream upon his own navel.

Hence, at the age of AF, he does not "come in his own name"
which Jesus said the world would receive gladly, like Dan
Brown it appears, but he "comes in the name of the father",
and must, by design, be swept into the malestrom of gnosis,
direct gnosis of God, and recovery of prophetic symbolism.

Only then is does AF give terror of being that taboo totem,
being numbered with extreme transressors: filial fellatees.
Pynchon's work pass both a hermeneutic test of reflexivity,
and of the numinous qualities of father-of-self, like Kafka.

Dan shows no knowledge of such a reflexive mystery,
mapping Jesus' grail on an innocent prostitue. Yet,
at a certain level, there is a kind of truth there,
at a level of transcendental communion of the holy.

Here is more evidence he is merely a mime pedant,
rationing in the endless regress of a simulacrum:

http://www.literaryguild.com/doc/full_site_enrollment/detail/fse_product_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=CX1NZSMQRQTISCTI4ENCFGA?repositoryId=566208045&engine=anything&src_type=media&src=AA4_02the_da_vinci_code&engine=anything&src_type=media&src=AA4_02the_da_vinci_code&_requestid=1834
> "Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a
> lot like making maple sugar candy,"
> he says,
> revealing his New Hampshire roots.
> "You have to tap hundreds of trees ...
> boil vats and vats of raw sap ...
> evaporate the water ...
> and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny
> nugget that encapsulates the essence."

Did I Compare and contrast?

   | AF? WD? SS?*
-- | --- --- ---
JC | Yes Yes Yes
TP | Yes Yes TBD
DB | Yes No. Ha!

(*male pap self-suckling)

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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