atdtda: 31 - pg 882

[Ian Livingston]

Ah, the layers of meaning.  It surely, as Bekah noted, points to all these
things and more without naming any.  The allusions to alchemy are clear and
those point to religion as religion finds common roots with alchemy, with
the power to change nature by acting upon the world, to become agents of
time by taking the role of Saturn (Kronos), to create new forms out the
mind's strange ordering of chaos in the meta-forms to which we devote
ourselves.
Bekah asked about naming in Genesis.  It is Genesis 2:19 that says, "So the
Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and
brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man
called every living creature, that was its name."  The remainder of the
chapter goes on to recount the creation of woman and the innocence of man
and woman running naked in the garden of Eden.
Blasphemy is a relative term somehow, yes?  Born, maybe, of the knowledge of
good and evil?  Who has that knowledge?  What is Good?  What is Evil?
Doesn't T.R. P. ask us to think about that in his not-naming, just kind of
pointing at that over there sort of way?

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> *********************
> 882. 10   Yashmeen to Cyprian,   "tesoro"  =   my treasure - a term of
> endearment
>
> *********************
>
> 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)
>
> *********************
>
> 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.
> *****
> The author and reader leave the angled trio  - Reef and  Yashmeen smiling
> at each other and Cyprian grateful.
>
> Bekah
>
>
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