PROSPERO

[Glenn Scheper]

I don't appreciate much olde Englishe through to wade,
but baudy Bill seems to be a master of tantric symbols.
Let's see what methinks betokened:

> Ye elves of hills,
> brooks,
> standing lakes and groves,

Elves: alive but not people, diminutive. The Egyptian god
of birth, Bes, a dwarf, suggests to me infants themselves.

> And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the
> ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back;

The printless foot is female pubes, and the sands male seed,
hence copulation is suggested. Since wings mean labia, that
could cover to "fly him", or his ejaculation could be meant.

> you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour
> ringlets make,
> Whereof the ewe not bites,

Emerald, the edge color of glass, fits both sea of glass and
the emerald rainbow of Revelation to the female part, per my
tantric experience, and sour it is. Moisture turns hairs into
ringlets, so the demi-puppet would be a penis. Difficult for
a female to bite, but common for a man, is her own pussy.
(Which recalls the male tree at the end of Dante's purgatory,
and the griffin, praised for not biting the bark thereof,
although that bite waited Christ to punish 5000 years.)

> and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms,
> that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew;

As autofellatio is the solar god, and mushrooms are obvious
penii, extinction of the sun is by the power of cunnilingus,
for as Revelation says, the sun became black as sackcloth of
hair. Although, when Blake says he spent time hanging upside
down with the oak roots and fungi under the altar, I thought
he was telling of auto-sodomy, an alternate AF opposition.

> by whose aid,
> Weak masters though ye be,
> I have bedimm'd The noontide sun,

Jesus reminds us that servants feed masters, yet in our
tantric space, the master will come and feed the servant.
I worked for a magnetics engineer, who described magnetic
cores with a small hysteresis response as "weak sisters".
Again, CL darkens the AF face. Recall that Moses' face
shone, and in the son of man vision opening Revelation,
"his countenance was as the sun shining in his strength".

> call'd forth the mutinous winds,

Again, when I met my dear wife, and my first cunnilingus
at the sixth seal, my penis had been angel to exactly four
females (skipping Thyatira). Which being uninterpreted, is:

 hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks,
 Fall on us,
 and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne,
 and from the wrath of the Lamb:
 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come;
 and who shall be able to stand?
 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,
 holding the four winds of the earth,
 that the wind should not blow on the earth,
 nor on the sea,
 nor on any tree.
 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east,
 having the seal of the living God:
 and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels,
 to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
 7:3 Saying,
 Hurt not the earth,
 neither the sea,
 nor the trees,
 till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

I have not actually labored enough to solve the metaphor part
that is wind, but if Shakespeare has them here being called,
winds label an aspect or attribute of function of the vagina.
Yet my coitus was interruptus, ending in AF, so the winds may
mean the man's oral function; or yet the penis itself, which
'blows' over the earth and sea in coitus. More research...!

Mutiny is either against the marriage, or against the spirit.
This is an essence of the AF's personal battle in Revelation.

> And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring
> war:

Taking womb as introjected Mar, sea, again green as emerald,
and blue marking male (little boy blue, come blow your horn),
we witness the "flowery fight". Or, alternation with AF.

> to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted
> Jove's stout oak With his own bolt;

I doubt coitus is dread like the metanoia due to autofellatio,
and thunder I mentioned before is AF related, and 'his own'
here suggests a monadic activity. Revelation has 'his feet
(penis) like unto fine brass (hard) as if they burned in a
furnace (mouth)'. The rattling suggests his manual assist.
TREE IS PENIS per Sha Rocco, and ejaculation the lightning.

> the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the
> spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar:

spurs: roots, testicles; or his own son-of-self parentage.

> graves at my command Have waked their sleepers,
> oped,
> and let 'em forth By my so potent art.

The pharisees are whitened sepulchres, wherein so-called
living men are considered dead by Jesus, but Shakespeare
has awakened himself out of the dead condition to life.

> But this rough magic I here abjure,
> and,
> when I have required Some heavenly music,
> which even now I do,
> To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is
> for,
> I'll break my staff,
> Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
> And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.

I think he's saying he'll put aside AF for a good fuck.
(book = scroll = cylinder = penis)
Or, in light of the link below, he will put off the airy
fairy fantasy things to attend to this mundane life. They
say Jesus would have been married, as befitting any rabbi.

This was good:
http://shakespeare.let.uu.nl/masque.htm
Though not gross as I, this mentions that Caliban/Prospero
alternate as one: worldly/spritual, say I: husband/priest.

> Act V The Tempest
> William Shakespeare

Reality check: Was this always already well known?
I surfed Prospero: 197 pages: no overt sexuality.
Only 5 erotic and 50 sex*, mostly irrelevant pages.

There is surely a whole school of interpretation
missing from the English literature departments.
To whom shall I submit my resume?

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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