TRTR(I.4) Manicentrism Continues

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Myself I don't know shit about TR and I really like the word 
"manicentrism", but isn't that something essential to mankind? 
Hand-brain-connection in evolution and all. There's already 
'manicentrism' in prehistoric cave-art (Europe, South America, 
Australia). There are gestures of blessing, swearing, greeting usw usf. 
The hand of the king symbolizing power. The right hand and the left hand 
path. Language by hand signs. Secret hand-shakes and palm reading. "Los 
manos, los manos!" Healing hands ... Shall say: 'Hand/s' alone explain 
nothing. We need a second but related term and "bandages" and "sling" 
show the direction: "The glove is the female equivalent of the Hand of 
Glory, which second-story men use to light their way into your home: a 
candle in a dead man's hand, erect as all your tissue will grow at the 
first delicious tongue-flick of your mistress Death. The glove is the 
cavity into which the Hand fits, as the 00000 is the womb into which 
Gottfried returns" (Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow, p. 750). Gloves, 
though sometimes a mere metonymy for hands, often indicate a turning 
away from every-day-life. How often does the word "glove" appear in TR?

http://www.shanmonster.com/witch/wards_tools/hand.html


On 10.05.2011 05:43, Jed Kelestron wrote:

> Hands are mentioned frequently in Chapter IV (23 times in 15 pages),
> and become a focus near the end as Otto studies his hands, first their
> backs, like a woman with fingers extended, then like a man, with
> fingers turned in upon the palm. He gets caught up in manual
> self-admiration causing hesitation in his plan to wrap his hand in
> bandages and place his arm in a sling to create a counterfeit injury
> to present to his friends upon return to NYC. All the usual images of
> polarity, self-reflection, and pretense.
>
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