V-2nd, ongoing profanity

[alice wellintown]

Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Picking up kai's insight that if every night is Christmas eve
> than none is sacred all is cheapened into the secular....
> then does that follow for "all the barmaids are named Beatrice" ?
> Unlike Dante's love, all are equally.......loveable, that is, sexually seen only. ?

If every night is the Eve of Christ's birth, when is Christ's birth celebrated?
If the first coming is not celebrated, will there be a second,  and/or
need we fear the rough beast who slouches toward Bethlehem?
Unlike Dante's Beatrice or F. Scott Fitzgerald's (This Side of
Paradise), V.'s Beatrice, like every night--even if it's Christmas
Eve, is like all the rest. The Christ narrative, the Devine Comedy,
and the Mother & Child narrative is subjected to the V.. Like the
Baedekers at Gatsby's Party:
“How do you feel, Miss Baedeker?”
The girl addressed was trying, unsuccessfully, to slump against my
shoulder. At this inquiry she sat up and opened her eyes.
“Wha’?”

The Beatrice Barmaids are mass produced products of a conusmer
narrative; Daisy has run Myrtle down with Gatsby's automobile. The
Virgin spills her blood, her milk, her enormous vitality, into the
Valley of Ashes, the Wasteland.

Forget Fire and Ice, Frost.
This is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
not with a birth,
but eruction.