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[Glenn Scheper]

> A golden eagle
> Why does Pynchon make a point of referring to it as "a she?"

> "Often the dream came just before dawn"
> Is there any way to interpret Kit's dream"?

> "this space the Gate had opened to them"
> What space might that be?

As I map Revelation on my life, AF occurred at
the fourth seal, which is the fourth "beast"
"like unto a flying eagle", and the beasts are
all females, whores in fact. But the fourth,
Thyatria, has a Jezebel/mother/Isis duality,
hence she also "informs" or "calls" ("Come").

All the AF poets have females in their work:
Nietzsche's dog barking at the portal between
the infinite past and future; A wolf, I think,
in Baudelaires' Carrion, awaiting her chance
at his carcass; The three beasts in Dante's
approach to his gate in Divine Comedy; Yeat's
falcon that "cannot hear the falconer"; the
three, and four, beats in many bible texts;
All of these seem to be the worldly "I fuck"
completing with the monadic renunciation of
such desire, in saying viscerally "I come!"

The mouth and vagina stand in a chialistic
(X-shaped) relationship of semiotic signs:
One is the representation of the other.

Hence in the dream, Kit hears a whisper
("What I whisper in your ear in darkness,
shout from the rooftops" - Jesus.) of Isis
saying, "you are released" - from desire;
and falls into a chasm that is his mouth,
a substitute of a vagina, the wine of semen,
the lamps swaying like Damocle's sword, and
the "train was just pulling into the station"
being a Freudian trope for sexual coitus.

Samovars (urn for brewing tea) puffing steam
resemble the golden censor after the seventh
seal of revelation, which I map on AF mouth,
"given much incense" due to cunnilingus.
And steam/smoke out of abysses seems two be
a prominant trope of my favorite AF poets.
That there are two suggest that X dualism.

So the space opened "along axes of sorrow
and loss" means the gnostic initiation, a
metanoia, or metamorphosis, due to AF, a
sacrifice of the self, generally freighted
with melancholia until well-integrated;

And all this space is not well mapped, but
only appears symbolically in many classics.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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