Gravity's Rainbow question for the Biblically inclined

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 2 17:04:08 CDT 2008


> Geli's spell, pages P748/749, V733/734, B855/857:
> This is magic, Sure---but not necessarily fantasy. 
> Certainly not the first time, at the edge of of the 
> evening, often forever, without knowing it.

Well, to a guy with a hammer.... This is auto-eroticism again,
that word whose ontical import is not known until after it is
spoken, and then... It's forever, brother!


And who is more magical than Emily?

A Traveller on a Hill -- To magic Perpendiculars Ascending, th
Magicians be asleep -- But Magic -- hath an Element Like Deity
ained in this short Life Are magical extents The soul returning s
electric Rest To those that Magic make -- 1586 To her derided
 the whole of Life Within a magic Prison We reprimand the Ha
er Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a 
e it I've known To lash the Magic Creature Till it fell, Yet that W
so with Butterflies -- Seen magic -- through the fright That they
th Itself exist Today -- The Magic passive but extant That cons
arch and April line -- That magical frontier Beyond which summ
s wear. It will not harm her magic pace That we so far behind -
  -- Find Words: magic


Come to think of it, Kit's whippin' scene's mighty magical!
Emily has one:

1304

Not with a Club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone --
A Whip so small you could not see it
I've known

To lash the Magic Creature
Till it fell,
Yet that Whip's Name
Too noble then to tell.

Magnanimous as Bird
By Boy descried --
Singing unto the Stone
Of which it died --

Shame need not crouch
In such an Earth as Ours --
Shame -- stand erect --
The Universe is yours.


> literal black magic can work towards the Christian moral high ground

Why, sure, pilgrim. Check out my new thoughts on Revelation:

I get these ideas all day long when I should be doing other
things; I thought I could cobble together a utility to map
V.29 modulation samples into a phase-array constellation
bitmap, but a few magical decoder pieces are beyond my math.
Adaptive transverse filters might as well name breech birth.

I was looking at a standard pretzel, and realized how much
like my tubular Omega it is, and considered a rubber band
twisted double around my coffee filter, like an infinity
symbol folded over: If you pulled one loop up high...

Anyway, I had gotten the eight 3.5 day moon phases wrong,
which are given for signs and times, like you have to be
trained in the timing before you can decode a modulation;

The left-most woman was "sea", not the second woman. There
was a prior first woman not in the picture to be "earth",
and her position is not at the left-most extremity of the
circle, but folded back in like the ends of the pretzel.
Extending the pretzel ends further, going all the way
around like the rubber band produces this overlay of
the early and late stages of the drama of Revelation:

This is the side view of the two circles joined at 2,6,
with these reference numbers put at their quadrants:

_______________0,8
__________1,7
_____2,6
__________3,5
_______________4

Now #1-7 are the visible phases of the moon, in some
one of which spaces two witnesses lay slain 3.5 days.

The invisible, "new moon", "clothed in the sun", are
#0 and #8, start and end positions of a Lamb's quest;
#0 relates to bio-mother, and #8 to tiresian rebirth.

#4 is the pit, discovery of His Name by autofellatio,
and follows his introjection, but not emmission, into
the first Jezebel's anus and the attempt of a second
Jezebel type, which was... I hear in the spirit, ugly.

Starting with wet-dream-in-navel at #0, any instance
of Lamb candidate is receptive to the first letter,
to Ephesus, and following such themes, is led to a
female #1; And from there must heed the Smyrna rules
until encountering female #2, etc. 2-3-4 were whores.
In fact, #4 labels two whores which is why the letter
to thyatira has two aspects; reminding me of ATD's
mention, it takes two men to handle this eagle, and
AF is the bird trope big time. #4 is the ontic nadir.

Anyway, the big blue crane I saw outside, which was
the vehicle with the impressive rod-of-iron I dreamt,
relates to anal sodomy at #4, and the Rev's abyss.

The "sea" metaphor, so hard to figure, is at #2 and 6.

"Earth" is in the 1-3-5-7 complex, as are hills, and
also rivers. But mountains are elsewhere, maybe 0/8?

Donut, anyone?


> Of course, it does make me wonder if there's a Civil War novel stuffed in a 
> drawer, somewhere.

Well, not in my drawers!


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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