V-2nd - Chapter 8 - Section IV - Stencil's soliloquy

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 11, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> also, the forensic anthropologist in the TV show "Bones" is named  
> Temperance!
>
>
> http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/M7.html
> (noting that the loquaciousness and allusiveness of this reference is
> at least as gnarly as anything in Deleuze and Guattari, the images and
> references in the Tarot Keys are as densely packed as a Pynchon
> passage, and hoping that Robin will provide some keys to this Key...)
>
> "Temperance mixes the wine and water by pouring from one vessel into
> the other, and then back again; her actions represent a periodic
> reversal of flow. In this case, the sublimation of the parents'
> energies to produce the child (trumps 1-6) is reversed, with a
> consequent resurgence of the libido in the child. This energy
> manifests in many forms (trumps 8-11), which she must learn to control
> and direct towards growth (trumps 12-20). (Nichols 252-3)"

I go for the "Fire/Water" version, not the cocktail shaker. It's not  
that one can't also think of Temperance Union variety of Temperance in  
"Temperance", that's there as well -- it's the Taoist middle path. But  
I go more for the alternate readings that emphasize the Art of the  
card, that particular skew.

> the "resurgence of libido" in Profane is an important part of V. and
> the resurgence of libido in Mondaugen, the various surgings of libido
> in Chapter 9, relate somehow to the idea of Temperance, or lack
> thereof...

The center not holding, wandering away from the path, the wobble in  
the orbit . . .