Knives' other play, "Bambi vs Hamlet", written via Ouija Board by spirit-medium Slavoj Ganja who deferred all the credit to Knives and it was such a hit in the underground, this "written from beyond the grave" gimmick was such an attention-getter that it had not just a cult following but a cult religion based on it, like some kind of codex. Bambi and Hamlet were the Jungian archetypes governing the engendering of the master-slave dialectic in society, and its molecular proliferation like weeds or like urban sprawl, and Bambi's submission to Hamlet is the basic dynamic of this sexuality of the architectonic within society, this apparatus of capture and the drama queen antics of the ruling classes. This dialectic of sex subverted the irony of stupidity and made everyone cheer for an encore, they wanted more, oh boy did they want Bambi vs Hamlet 2! Cecilia was going to play Bambi in the new sequel production which was in collaboration with Ye Wretches, an enti...
I see Christ as subtracted from "Christianity". But this means that he is a "vanishing mediator". He is precisely not expressed in religious art, but remains a complete mystery. The more futile Christianity becomes (as a set of practices), the more I feel myself liberated from it, and in that sense perhaps catching a whiff of Jesus' divine afflatus. Particularly when I find myself giving up and undoing the knots of the obsessive prohibitions I have erroneously sutured to my conception of Christianity. CS Lewis tapes listened til the audio would degrade if they weren't digital. Lewis' world is that of Christianity. But Christ I insist is subtracted from all of that. For what is Christ but another emanation of that powerful bit of weather conjured up by some Jews on the run from slavery, who in their desperation, discovered some mysterious thing which is often described as unnameable. For me this same mystery attaches to Christ, so I refuse to imagine hi...
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