ATDTDA (18): 493-494 "captivated by eyes"

[Glenn Scheper]

> Cyprian finds romantic - and erotic - pleasure in gazes
> which refuse to return his own interest.

> He conjugates Greek "in obscure gnomic tenses"
> to mentally distract himself,
> but it doesn't work.

> There's also hints of the spiritual coming in here -
> important in this chapter -
> when Yashmeen warns Cyps that he "burns incense at the
> wrong altar."


Compare Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - Lewis Carroll
- Young girls would not return his own gaze of interest.
- As I recall, he conjugated latin verbs or something while lying in bed.
- He is a Reverend, and probably the _Anti-Oedipus_ "celibate machine".


He was a photographer of excellence (his portraits of children are regarded as 
some of the finest examples of Victorian portrait photography), a talented 
illustrator, a keen amateur magician, and a stern moralist who published a book 
of Pillow Problems (logical puzzles designed to be solved mentally in bed at 
night to prevent minds clouded by impure, sceptical and blasphemous thoughts 
from slipping down beneath bed-clothes).
  -- http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~mwsmith/boojum!extras.html
  Boojum! synopsis etc


Dodgson's friendships with young girls, together with his perceived lack of 
interest in romantic attachments to adult women, and psychological readings of 
his work - especially his photographs of nude or semi-nude girls[17] - have all 
led to speculation that he was, in modern parlance, a pædophile.
  -- http://www.answers.com/charles+lutwidge+dodgson%26r=67
  Lewis Carroll: Biography and Much More from Answers.com


According to Leach the image of 'Lewis Carroll' was constructed almost 
accidentally by generations of biographers. One of these, Langford Reed, writing 
in 1932, was the first to state that many of Carroll's female friendships ended 
when the girls reached the age of 14,[20] though Reed apparently only intended 
to suggest that Dodgson was thereby a "pure man" untainted by sexual desire.[21] 
This statement, that Dodgson lost interest in girls once they reached puberty, 
was later caught up by other biographers,
  -- http://www.answers.com/lewis+carroll%26r=67
  Lewis Carroll: Biography and Much More from Answers.com


According to Leach, Dodgson's real life was very different from the accepted 
biographical image. He was not, she says, exclusively interested in female 
children. She acknowledges he was fond of children, but says this interest has 
been exaggerated. She says that he was also keenly interested in adult women and 
apparently enjoyed several relationships with them, married and single;
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
  Lewis Carroll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


As I was trying to find a quote, never did, I got some Alice on me.
This sounds very like self-suckling (drink me) and auto-cunnilingus:

Alice is sitting by her sister lazily, and she sees a White Rabbit in clothes 
carrying a pocket-watch. She follows it down a rabbit hole, and falls down a 
very long chamber full of strange things on shelves. After landing safely on the 
ground, she goes into a long hallway with a glass table with a gold key. Alice 
opens up a curtain and finds a small door, which the key fits in perfectly, and 
behind it is a beautiful garden, but she can't fit in. Alice then finds a small 
bottle labelled DRINK ME, and drinks it, causing her to shrink. Alice 
accidentally left the key on the table, so she can't reach it. She then 
discovers a cake that says EAT ME, and eats it.
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The other brilliant post today, relating Cyprian/Cyprus/Venus,
reminds me of a recent female prophetess posting that the Holy Spirit
would be known as female, as MOMMA. Of course, Mary overshadowed by
the Shekinah is an autocunnilingus tale. But Paul (I think) saying
the Holy Spirit is male probably has in mind a Tiresias-like man,
and Qadesh, holy, is also the label used of male temple prostitutes.
In reading on Egypt I learned that ISIS (a Venus type) was prayed to
for, as I recall, salvation and forgiveness. And ending Revelation,
"I am the bright and morning star", attributes of planet Venus.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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