Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 22:33:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: a class-_ich_-(X)ample



... and as if without warning, a tired old mobile 
storm, pulling up roots, well-worn, from battered texts
as familiar as the day is long -- 

     "being, it is ungenerated and indestructible ..."
      (Parmenides, fragment B-8)

Und ICH -- forced to approach Parmenides; nevertheless
does a reign begin, a Nile flood, bearing the textual
pseudepigrapha of one Hermes Trismegistus:

     "the first Mind ... generated through the Word
     another Mind, the Demiurge"
      (_Corpus Hermeticum_, Book I.)

And in my turn, drawn back to/through Derrida's "Father of Logos," in
_Dissemination_, there stands revealed/re-veiled a prompt portrayal of
a logos turned
back on itself, scanning through the ages only a far-flung corpse, a
de-posed god awaiting only (X)oblivion(E).  And while the ex-position
of my namesake takes seriously the fault of worldly encryption, it is
up to us 'moderns' to pre-veil (over) the naught-eye
be-speckle-me(a)nt of un-glorified/deified (defied) traces ... :

For me there remains the question of a passage of/in Parmenides:

     "And unmoving in the limits of great chains it is
        beginningless
     and ceaseless, since generation and destruction
     have wandered far away, and true trust has thrust
        them off."

As Hegel has taught/intuited for us: being is always a stone's throw
from generation; any generative act, so the story goes, is sufficient
to engender a systematic elaboration upon the whole edifice of thought
and action to a certain point.  In short, the totality is open to
anyone willing to sacrifice his/her private/primitive mode(s) of
_engendrance_, all in the name of good will and willing goodness ... a
private bath for Petronius & Co.  It occurs in and for the
standing-under, this being, this mo(ve)ment -- and regulations
philosophical stop at no text.  A simple lapse into novelistic
_chants_ will suffice to open/shut the door to MY room.

Sleepy, I open once again an old text of Huysmans.  And I must remind
Lucio to seek out a copy of Bataille's _Trial of Gilles de Rais_ for
me.  There are plenty of books on Nietzsche here about Columbia --
I'll swap 'em all for Bataille on de Rais.


~~ P.V.









 



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