| Exegesis on Shem
and Shaun for
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it is a bit confusing
[!] because the shem nature is such to embrace shaun - the paradox of love
is that love must open its arms to hate, to blackandwhiteism, to the 'game'
of opposition: [shem says to shaun, fw301:
sure you could write anny passage [=also ann's
passage, the magnamater's passage, ie be a writer/ creator/ man/ fertile]
as [fine] as that lousy erewhig [earwig/ earwicker
/hce and former whig, former leftwinger, leftbanker shem]...nock
the muddy nickers [rugby on the fields of
eton/oxford]... christs church varses belial]
-
shem has to absorb
shaun - this is death - he sacrifices what he loves most [love, kindness,
gentleness, conciliation[*], trade, commerce, communication,
travelling, moving, growth - all the hermes and shem things -
shem is egyptian for knower, kin, traveller -
and thus gets 'three men in him' [fw
somewhere] - ie, shem, ham
[=sham] and shaun, to become tristan, the
young hce - his opening himself to his opposite, letting go love, only
makes his love purer, more powerful - death of the soul leads only to 'more
abundant life' - he becomes free from 'obsession' with shaunism - it is
no longer an anxiety to him [the unpushed
laughing at shaun lurking in all the egosoothing but probing questions
in ch 13 - he has lost his fanatical attachment to truth and honesty and
is able to use flattery] - contrast jesus,
who has not outgrown the opposition to the 'pharisees' and 'moneylenders',
who cannot talk to pilate - he is not 'big enough' to do so, he is frightened
of losing his purity [thus significant that
jesus thinks god is good despite isaiah 45,7, where god says 'i create
evil' [disaster/calamity/etc] cf
tao-te-ching: when morality is up, goodness is in decline] shaun
is the no-goer, the parochial, the bigot, the rigid, the prejudiced, the
smallminded, the excommunicating will, the apollonian destruction, warriorism,
the prodigal son's brother who does not share in the father's unconditional
love of the errer, the one who refuses to fall, who is therefore
in defiance of god's will, who delivers all to disobedience [romans
11.32 - the pivotal 1132 of fw] so he can
demonstrate his unconditional love, his sweetest gift, the forgiveness
of sins [no felix without culpa, whence 'the
sweets of sin'], the pornographic novel of
ulysses, and blake's mary: how else could i taste the sweetness of the
forgiveness of sins: it is her purity, her obedience
[=hearkening,
to the uncreated law/uncreated conscience of the heart],
in following her nature to sin, to disobedience [to
the created law] that makes her worthy to
be mother of god - her confidence /faith in the lovingheart of 'god'
[=life] that she would not miss the safety
net of god if she followed her feelings and offended against mores/wonts/customs
[violer
da mores] by lying with this 'angel', this
gorgeous hunk of a radiant young man, at the risk of being stoned to death
for fornication [heresy! blasphemy! but what
does the shaun/church know?] the truth
is paradoxical [because we use single words
for both opposites] *shem conciliating,
174: 'it went without saying that the cull disliked anything anyway approaching
a plain straightforward standup or knockdown row, and, as often as he was
called in to umpire any octagonal argument among slangwhangers, the accomplished
washout always used to rub shoulders with the last speaker and clasp shakers...and
agree to every word as soon as half uttered, command me!, your servant,
good, i revere you,...be drinking that! quite truth,...also goods,...you
said it', etc ---- the fact is, we are all not entirely beyond duality/
polarity/plurality/ world, and good and bad still exist for us - i think
the twone means that the ultimate principle is the unity of unity and duality
- the twone is the trivia, the tri-via [Diana
Trivia], the pythagorean Y which is the same
as the yinyang symbol and the same as the royal divorce - the separation/
opposition/ conflict/ confusion/ disorder/ world goes on forever
[book of common prayer: world without end] because
it is the only means for the recognition of unity/peace etc [everything
rec thru its opp - a principle which pops up in the wisdom lit from earliest
times] - fertility is the meeting of truth
and illusion, unity and duality - which one can see straight away in the
fact that most stories - even comedies - depend on vicissitudes - a truth
which is, interestingly enough, incorporated in the human body: the genitals
are placed at the intersection of the trunk and the legs - the trunk [unity]
is the 'real' body [the 'bottom' is the bottom
of the 'real' body] but without the legs.
there would be no motion and we would be scraping along on our 'middle'
[egyptian
uses legs to signify motion]
[notice that motion is only necessary in duality, in separation - in contrast,
laotse characterises happiness as living in a village [commodius
vicus? - vicus=village] and never going to
the next village tho it is in sight - [how
unhappy *we* must be!!] - it is a strange
idea of happiness, but makes sense: if you are happy, why would you move?
if you have incorporated infinity, if you can see infinity in a grain of
sand, what are you missing?] ---------
so in the 'end', we have come to shaun's no-go, hce's mountainous fixity
- but then fixed people become unadaptable and get washed away by time,
by revolution, by shem/ tristans, by violator of mores, by ulysses, pirate
and sacker of towns... ------------- the japanese for
love is made of the characters stop and go - mountain and river - hce and
alp - which/who in ch 17 are set up in the central tych with christian
supporters in the side tyches of the triptych - supporters symbolise defeated,
conquered, subdued [i havent found where this
triptych is, in ch 17, i am only going on what ?glasheen said]----
set, the chop-man for osiris, is a necessary god agape-love-caritas
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Nigel:
the moorish connection is important in that the gothic- renaissance -modernscience
-backtonature movement was essentially moorish ie islamic - the moors in
spain and thence spreading into europe esp in the south where the gothic-troubadour-protestant
revolution [violer d'a mores] started - even aquinas and dante deeply infused
with arabic/moorish/sufi stuff - of course the arabs preserved aristotle
and shunted it back into europe for aquinas and the whole medieval university
aristotle vs plato phenomenon --Me:
easy enough to admire arabs down in new zealand where there aren't any
Nigel, try france, belgium, germany and Holland and some less admirable
traits might be in evidence, don't forget their territories were turned
into deserts more and 'moor', prompting them to try curb the pop-proliflifeliffyflood,
only to see pressures, tempers and dunes rise still mooooooor; got an answer
to that? Ps: go see indymedia.org, click any item there and then substitute
154093 (tell me if you like it)
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