Crutchfield, Cherokee, Red River notes

[Joseph Tracy]

NOTES FIRST :
Before hypertext: Strong’s Bible Concordance look up any word, find every instance of use in Bible. Could be a model for GR before digital hypertext.

TS enters Underworld through toilet
 journey down through shit
 enters new space
“No sun, no moon, only a long smooth sinewaving of the light.

people he knows are there - combination ruins and fully furnished bedrooms hung with velvet-with old expensive record players- a place of sheltering from disaster as if there is a Pearl Harbor every morning. He does not want to join others- is outside like hawk two  hawks( who is 2nd hawk?)emerges into thick green  watery light( like opening dream)

“Here now is Crutchfield or Crouchfield, the westwardman.”  

Crutchfield American wood furniture from Georgia( Cherokee Indians,  Andrew Jackson called old hickory  trail of tears starts here)
White Cocksman of the terre mauvais

Offers to smoke shit 
Uncle Sam as lord of underworld

solipsism only different
the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist. Well OK one of everything to fuck.

Red River Valley( song of departure)
What Red Means?   Blood shed to get empire: red heifer(sacrifice in Bible associated with Christ), red indians, red headed niggers, FDR reds, kikes, dykes, cripples, Japs, Norwegians
all the treaties broken, promises broken,immigrants used against each other, 

From Old French malvais (1080), from Latin malifātius (1st c.AD), from malum ‎(“bad”) + fatum ‎(“fate”).[1][2].Adjective[edit]
mauvais m ‎(feminine singular mauvaise, masculine plural mauvais, feminine plural mauvaises)
	1	bad 
	2	wrong, incorrect
malicious
 broken

THOUGHTS
In previous reads I haven’t really known what to do with the Crutchfield/Crouchfield section, just let it sail past. But my Mom sold furniture and the name Crutchfield triggered her mention of wood furniture. Also the CC character is associated with wood, barns, fine grain.. Crutchfield furniture is made in Georgia, original homeland of the Cherokee. Andy Jackson was one of the first Tyrannasurus Rump’s to tap into white nativism in a big way to steal the prime land owned by the Cherokee( They had their own newspapers, land deeds etc., very savvy culture prepared to adapt to European  changes)
He is the perfect archetype of US imperialism and our secret first Hitler,one face of the White Cocksman of the world of evil.

P plays the Red River Valley as a kind of imperialist theme song. Always on about how much we love home, always leaving to steal  another Valley from some stinking red.  The red river is blood. CC invites TS to " Light up and sit for a spell”

But TS, after listening to CC’s delight in blood and rape and the war yet to come, asks questions and the questions seem to break the spell and after a vision of dead soldiers hoping to be reincarnated in rich suburban neighborhoods, he emerges back into the original memory on the streets of Roxbury.

My feeling is this is actually a picture of TS not partaking while in the underworld and therefor not hooked like the Indians Dog.




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