atdtda: 31 - pg 882

[Mark Kohut]

I think the p-wiki "electrical generation" wild guess is not relevant.
   
  That triad lovemaking scene HAS to be a vital [sic] metaphor and a 'religious' one in some 'blasphemous' way, yes?
   
  

Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  Page 882  

  In the "upper room"  Yashmeen,  Reef and Cyprian find old heavy furnishings and ...  
  

  882: 1    "pale amoretti" 
    
  Amoretti is another term for "putto" which are naked  baby angels, usually male and similar to, but NOT,  cherubs.  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putto
  

  Quite a little scene up there on the ceiling.  
  

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  882. 10   Yashmeen to Cyprian,   "tesoro"  =   my treasure - a term of endearment
  

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  882. 6- .15     Yashmeen arranges a scene,  a set,  a tableaux  with 
  

  Reef set to ejaculate, 
  Cyprian set to accommodate Reef as a temporary receptacle and 
  herself,  Yashmeen,  legs to be spread around Cyprian's head,  to receive Reef's gift.   (go read the book)
  

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  882.21  "fellatrice"   (rare)   a woman - a fellatrix  - who performs fellatio,  oral sex in which the penis of one of the participants is orally stimulated.
  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fellatrice
  synonym - blow job
  

  AND:  (pretty good, imo) 
  

  From Pynchon- Wiki: 
  http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_864-891#Page_882
  

    "The conception described here is technically immaculate: Reef fulfills the role of the Father, Yashmeen that of Mary, and Cyprian that of the Holy Ghost.
  Or is this a human instance of three phase electrical generation?
Or an alchemical operation to produce the Philosopher's Stone?
Or the creation of a Moonchild through sex magic ala Aleister Crowley.
  Alchemical musings: Person-Sex-Orb-Metal
Reef: male, sun, gold
Yashmeen: female, moon, silver
Cyprian: female/male, mercury, mercury (quicksilver)
  Cyprian first receives the seed as the functional equivalent of a female and then plants the seed as a male. He changes gender relating to his passing through the arch alone -- this also seems metaphorically related to the process of photographic plate development shift in colors.
  This sex shift also relates him to Mercury, quicksilver, a transition metal named for a hermaphroditic god. The glyph for Mercury is used in biology and botany to mean double-sexed.
  Mercury was once used in the amalgamation process of refining gold and silver ores. It was central to the practice of the assayer in juding the purity of gold and silver ore, and the alchemist in the the production of the Philosopher's Stone. Mercury signifies the coniunctio or uniting of opposites.
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  The author and reader leave the angled trio  - Reef and  Yashmeen smiling at each other and Cyprian grateful. 
  

  Bekah

  



       
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