AtD, p. 837next..'without the possibility of another meaning'

[Glenn Scheper]

Why yes, but look: The Day! The Day! (As in Against...)

> 
> "of light anatomized"..!!
> 
> nice find...................
> 
>   O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
>   When first the shaft into his vision shone
>   Of light anatomized!
>   -- Edna St. Vincent Millay)


Always a delight to have reason to surf a fellow auto-erotic.

Who can miss this topology?


Renascence

All I could see from where I stood

Was three long mountains and a wood;

I turned and looked another way,

And saw three islands in a bay.

So with my eyes I traced the line

Of the horizon, thin and fine,

Straight around till I was come

Back to where I'd started from;

And all I saw from where I stood

Was three long mountains and a wood.

Over these things I could not see;

These were the things that bounded me;

And I could touch them with my hand,

Almost, I thought, from where I stand.

And all at once things seemed so small

My breath came short, and scarce at all.

But, sure, the sky is big, I said;

Miles and miles above my head;

So here upon my back I'll lie

And look my fill into the sky.

And so I looked, and, after all,

The sky was not so very tall.

The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,

And -- sure enough! -- I see the top!

The sky, I thought, is not so grand;

I 'most could touch it with my hand!

And reaching up my hand to try,

I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

I screamed, and -- lo! -- Infinity

Came down and settled over me;

Forced back my scream into my chest,

Bent back my arm upon my breast,

And, pressing of the Undefined

The definition on my mind,

Held up before my eyes a glass

Through which my shrinking sight did pass

Until it seemed I must behold

Immensity made manifold;

Whispered to me a word whose sound

Deafened the air for worlds around,

And brought unmuffled to my ears

The gossiping of friendly spheres,

The creaking of the tented sky,

The ticking of Eternity.

I saw and heard, and knew at last

The How and Why of all things, past,

And present, and forevermore.

The Universe, cleft to the core,

Lay open to my probing sense

That, sick'ning, I would fain pluck thence

But could not, -- nay! But needs must suck

At the great wound, and could not pluck

My lips away till I had drawn

All venom out. -- Ah, fearful pawn!

For my omniscience paid I toll

In infinite remorse of soul.

All sin was of my sinning, all

Atoning mine, and mine the gall

Of all regret. Mine was the weight

Of every brooded wrong, the hate

That stood behind each envious thrust,

Mine every greed, mine every lust.

And all the while for every grief,

Each suffering, I craved relief

With individual desire, -- ...


        Redhead alert!

She was small, intense, pale, with hair the color of fire.
  -- http://www.arlindo-correia.com/160901.html
  Edna St. Vincent Millay


1936 Published with George Dillon Flowers of Evil, from the French of Charles 
Baudelaire. New York: Harper & Brothers
  -- http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/millay.html
  Edna St. Vincent Millay Papers (Library of Congress)


Vols. 78-82, drafts including "Cult of the Occult," ca. 1949
  -- http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/millay.html
  Edna St. Vincent Millay Papers (Library of Congress)



        And surfing Millay,
        I learn today of another obvious auto-erotic, Hilda Doolittle:


I feel the lure of the invisible, I am happier here alone in this great temple, 
with this great temple's indecipherable hieroglyph; I have "read" the lily.
  -- http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number9/Saracli.html
  Journal of American Studies of Turkey


After their encounter, Calypso repeatedly asks Odysseus:

did I ask you to this rock-shelf, did I lure you here? did I call, far and near 
.... tell me, did I whisper to you sought that would work a charm? (Collected 
Poems 389)

She goes so far as to rebuke him:

I am priestess, occult, nymph and goddess. .... you are heavy great oaf walrus 
whale, clumsy on land clumsy with your great arms with an oar at sea; (Collected 
Poems 389)
  -- http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/Number9/Saracli.html
  Journal of American Studies of Turkey



Speaking of anatomized light,

The first is a description of the event itself (Acts 9:1-20) in which he is 
described as falling to the ground, as a result of a flash of light from the 
sky, hearing the words "Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me?"

In the accounts, he is described as being led, blinded by the light, to Damascus 
where his sight was restored by a disciple called Ananias and he was baptized.
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus
  Paul the Apostle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


BTW, I recognize this Kachina unmasked event; It was my
AF tryst with an erotic dancer on Rosh Hashana (day 2);
Also of course, the WTC and subsequent war.

"The war will be 'a spiritual conflict with material matters. Material matters 
will be destroyed by spiritual beings who will remain to create one world and 
one nation under one power, that of the Creator.'

"That time is not far off. It will come when the Saquasohuh (Blue Star) Kachina 
dances in the plaza and removes his mask. He represents a blue star, far off and 
yet invisible, which will make its appearance soon.

"These are the Signs that great destruction is here: The world shall rock to and 
fro. The white man will battle people in other lands -- those who possessed the 
first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as the 
white man has made in the deserts not far from here. Those who stay and live in 
the places of the Hopi shall be safe. Then there will be much to rebuild. And 
soon, very soon afterward, Pahana will return. He shall bring with him the dawn 
of the Fifth World. He shall plant the seeds of his wisdom in our hearts. Even 
now the seeds are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the Emergence 
into the Fifth World."

"The end of all Hopi ceremonialism will come when a Kachina removes his mask 
during a dance in the plaza before uninitiated children. For a while there will 
be no more ceremonies, no more faith. Then Oraibi will be rejuvenated with its 
faith and ceremonies, marking the start of a new cycle of Hopi life.
  -- http://www.greatdreams.com/alignment.htm
  FUTURE PLANETARY ALIGNMENT


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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