Hi Alison
Most amused to see you are working on a novel written by God. I too have
recently had a bit of a tussle with a Nietzschean when I volunteered that I
was working with a figure of the New Human God in _Swindle_ (the dreadful
novel I am working on...) It was hoped by this Nietzschean this New Human God
would be laughed to death. In the strict materialist sense the Novel (a
proper noun to indicate a philosophical concept) is an infinite attribute of
God. That is, the Novel cannot be divided, being an infinite attribute of
God. (See book one of Spinoza's _Ethics_.) The new Human God I am working
with is critiqued in _Ethics_ and is a transcendental ideal God, a human god
with a face, and is a figure on the plane of composition of Nature (Spinoza's
God where Nature is also artifice) which is the figure that composes a
fascist Australia. Of course, for Nietzsche, woman is supposed as truth and
hence for Nietzsche the Goddess is the plane of composition of Nature. Hence
the Novel is written by the hand of God which is the Goddess! (Even the
triple Goddess, ala Graves.) Your head really starts to spin when you get in
Leibniz who accepted Spinoza's God and starts talking about the Soul which is
the inverse of infinity or the Monad. Now, how to straddle Monads and be
Nomadic. That is a real head spin.........
best wishes
Chris Jones.
On Monday 06 May 2002 10:51, you wrote:
> Hi Erminia
>
> Difficult to talk about a work so much in progress and so much at the
> beginning of itself... but God is very much in the headlines at
> present, the standoff at Bethlehem being a blackly ironic footnote,
> no? It seems to me a bit begging the question to say God is dead or
> even suicided, if so many human passions and disasters are inflamed
> by God's existence. I should say as far as the novel is concerned
> that the universe in which the Author exists is godless, the Author
> is present as a, I guess, vitalising absence: the whole thing is
> after all a fiction. But for the narrator, the Author is God, and
> that is quite literally true, after all, if I didn't imagine him he
> wouldn't exist. Also interested in Reality, its connection to Royal
> (real estate, money &c) as a measure of closeness to God.
>
> Best
>
> A
>
> At 1:03 AM +0100 6/5/02, Erminia Passannanti wrote:
> >you are right, in a way, but, may I suggest that your perspective vehicles
> >a strong religious outlook on the world, in that, whether or not God is
> >existent or interested in the World, we (men and women), behave well or
> >bad but accordingly (yet, being God, in your novel, this is
> >comprehensible ).
> >
> >And indeed, in a world where God has metaphorically died, there is still
> >lots of religiosity going on. Mostly because when someone dies and is
> >being missed, that is the very moment in which he becomes even more
> >mythical of the times when he was present, encumbering.
> >
> >God is the World, and therefore he experiences a compresence with itself.
> >We will never be able to make two separate creatures out of this horrible
> >two headed monster (material and ethereal nature of the World).
> >
> >This if God is in the World because he is itself the World, and this if
> >God dwells in itself, whether alive or dead, being itself.
> >
> >God is dead because he committed suicide: he was too horrified about his
> >errors, too guilty.
> >erminia
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