GRGR: starting up without page numbers

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 1 18:13:24 CST 2005


I installed a $40 FogWare Fonix iSpeak program at work,
and when I went to my text cache, lo, a 2MB copy of GR.

This GR URL is no longer valid. Maybe someone knows another?
http://de.geocities.com/geri130162/pyv20001.htm

I wrapped it at punctuation: wt -m . -w 500 gr.txt > ok.txt
so the speaker would not pause at funny places for newlines.
I will have no pages numbers to reference. Sorry about that.

In an hour, I listened and read along down to the adenoid,
clause 1269 out of 77579 and got a lot more out of it as a
story than trying to be attentive thumbing through the book.
Now it hangs like a narrative, not a keyword concatenation.

Listening revealed this: Joaquin Stick = "walkin' stick".

The all-banana fare reminds me of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha,
whose sage satisfied to be a ferry-man's helper ate bananas.

Acknowledgement of Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop
for Death" is a nod to the female experiencer of the metanoia,
the mid-life death/crisis/rebirth following auto-oral-erotics.

I think I found researching Rilke as being such a fellow too.
Yep, this is pure autofellatio/psychic transformation imagery:
http://www.dead.net/RobertHunterArchive/files/Poetry/SonnetsToOrpheus.html

A scream and impending rocket fall hearken back to my psychosis.
The scream is the being-called-out of autofellatio, a word whose
meaning cannot be imagined until after it has been stated, like
the V2 that cannot be heard coming in; Each causes destruction.

Note the idea that the rocket might fall right on Pirate's head:

 The first news you get of it is the blast.

 Then,
 if you're still around,
 you hear the sound of it coming in.

 What if it should hit exactly ahh,
 no for a split second you'd have to feel the very point,
 with the terrible mass above,
 strike the top of the skull....

 Pirate hunches his shoulders,
 bearing his bananas down the corkscrew ladder.

This sequence mappable on autofellatio imagery reminds me of Poe's
<M* story?> wherein a horseman is riding up a spiral staircase.

Google Poe tower horse spiral to see old & new relevant fellows,
and cross-epoch persistent consistent metaphors: banana, hammer,
fountain, serpent, book/scroll/spiral, tower, horse, slaughter,
church, serving, waiting, looking, shouting, writing, shaking,
naked, breath, freeing, escape. Archway-keystone-hidden-arcane:


Celephais by HP Lovecraft
... a damp stone spiral stairway endlessly,
and came to a tower window overlooking a mighty plain ...

Pegasus is the white horse that caused the fountain of the Muses to activate.
Consider meditation and the spiral energy called Kundalini or the coiled ...

High Bridge
Edgar Allan Poe wrote of walking on High Bridge soon after its completion. ...
A spiral staircase leads from the ground floor to the top of the tower (I ...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe V. 2
A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much ...
A servant in waiting took my horse, and I entered the Gothic archway of the hall. 

Complete Poetry of William Wordsworth; full-text poems of William ...
The woodbine so, with spiral grace, and breathes ... Unharnessed, naked, troops
of Moorish horse Sweep to the charge; more high, the Dacian force, ...

Poetry of Amy Lowell, full-text; Amy Lowell's poems at everypoet.com
Ten o'clock striking from all the clock-towers of Paris. ... Paris is full of
the galloping of horses and the knocking of hammers. "Hullo! ...

protocol1.html
Feeling of understanding Poe much better now. ... The subject explains that his
arm is "a look-out tower - or rather a look-in tower --images go in and ...

17 : XVII The Flight of Two Owls
... wet leaves of the, horse-chestnut or elm-trees, torn off untimely by the blast
and scattered along ... But in our ascending spiral, we escape all this. ...
        I noticed a "Judge Pyncheon" therein:
http://www.literatureproject.com/house-seven-gables/house-seven-gables_17.htm

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Compact ...
Two Critical Casebooks: Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor. ... Chidiock Tichborne,
Elegy, Written with His Own Hand in the Tower Before His Execution. 

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Elson Grammer School Literature ...
Biographical and Historical: Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19th,
1809. ... And shook his gauntlet at the towers. "Horse! horse! ...

Also
Then he climbed to the tower of the church, Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy
... Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, ...

[PDF] C:\Documents and Settings\Vernon Frazer\My Documents\Demolition ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
frozen to honorariums on horses in traffic circles staring madly ... in her
apocryphal tower Nadja weeps. por nada en espanol. navel juxtapositions eat fish ...

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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