{Right Homosexuality}[26th November 1988]

[Redbook6:38-39)][19881126:1330]{Right Homosexuality}[26th November 1988]

19881126.1330

The curious and disconcerting association of homosexuality with the right side of the Circle – particularly with Michael – not that I would ever dream that the Archetype could be capable of indulging in a homosexual act: I am thinking more of the tendency of the genders to stick to their own gender socially – first crystallised in a remark made to me by my sister [S], many years ago, (possibly having read the first attempt at ‘[0]’, ‘[TG]’, which was written in the third person through the eyes of +M, and introduced, in that order I think, first +C, and then +Mk and +K together(?)) – that Michael was a name associated with homosexuals: if I recall correctly, we had been watching a television ‘review’* with a song about ‘Michael, Michael, Superman’,** who [won] prizes for body-building and then went home and dressed in women’s clothes…. This startling insight stayed with me, forcing me to recognise that the original Michael in ‘[TG]’, who is not all that similar to the +M of ‘[0]’ and the Circles, was based on, or had been written for, the film character played by a young boy film star of the time….

This parenthetical rambling has a point to it: that quite apart from the apparent tendency of the genders to mix on the left side, and remain separate on the right side, of the Circle: the metaphysical ‘birth’ of R~ and J~ by G~ in combination with +C†I~ and A~, respectively, is the result of ‘heterosexual’ combination, whereas the metaphysical ‘birth’ of of S~ and*** U~ by M~ in combination with respectively the same two vertical Archetypes can only be characterised as symbolically homosexual. Once again, I stress the absence (and inconceivability...)**** of any act of physical intercourse.

*[revue?]

**[See lyrics below#]

***[In the ms text S~ and U~ are reversed here, which is clearly a mistake given the ms insertion of ‘respectively’]

****with apologies to Dr Johnson

[Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. (Wikipedia)]

[This is I believe based on what appears to be a mis-attribution of a quotation, of which the only reference I can find at present is as follows: ‘Sir John Mahaffy, Oscar Wilde’s tutor at Trinity College [Dublin], confronted once by a suffragette who demanded to know what essential difference there was between a man and a woman, retorted, “Madam, I cannot conceive”.’ (Donald Christopher Nugent, ‘There Was a Feminine Mysticism’ Mystics Quarterly, Vol 14, No. 3 (September 1988), p135, Penn State University Press)]

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Michael, Michael, Superman

Muscle bound and super tan

Leather jacket, denim pants

Never did learn

How to dance, how to dance

Digs karate, raps on Zen

Michael makes it best with men

Digs karate, raps on Zen

Michael makes it best with men

Michael, Michael, Michael, Superman

Muscle bound and super tan

When he walks and talks and moves

Michael proves and proves

And proves Michael

Is a hyper Superman

Pushes acid, peddles hash

That's how Michael gets his stash

Rides his cycle likes a king

Knows his number

Does his thing, does his thing

And if he wants to

He can con any bird

He's turning on, if he wants to

He can con any bird

He's turning on

Michael, Michael, Michael, Superman

Muscle bound and super tan

When he walks and talks and moves

Michael proves and proves

And proves Michael

Is a hyper superman

But late at night

He sometimes seems to hear

His mother's voice

In dreams, calling to him

Clear and plain

But she calls him

Mary Jane, Mary Jane

And Michael answers plain and clear

I am coming, Mother dear

Michael answers plain and clear

I am coming, Mother dear

Michael, Michael, Michael, Superman

Muscle bound and super tan

When he walks and talks and moves

Michael proves and proves

And proves Michael

Is a hyper superman

A superman

La la la la la la la la la la la

Written by: DORY LANGDON PREVIN

Dory Previn, born Dorothy Veronica Langan (October 22, 1925 – February 14, 2012), was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.

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