Jeshimon, Dualism, Zen Anarchy

Keith keithsz at mac.com
Fri May 4 00:57:03 CDT 2007


"Pökler in his horny staring had missed the Director's clever Gnostic  
symbolism in the lighting scheme of the two shadows, Cain's and  
Abel's. But Ilse, some Ilse, has persisted beyond her cinema mother,  
beyond film's end, and so have the shadows of shadows. In the Zone,  
all will be moving under the Old Dispensation, inside the Cainist's  
light and space:  not out of any precious Göllerei, but because the  
Double Light was always there, outside the film, and that shucking  
and jiving moviemaker was the only one around at the time who  
happened to notice it and use it, although in deep ignorance, then  
and now, of what he was showing the nation of  
starers. . . ."     (GR, Viking Penguin, p. 429)






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