20 october 2025

20 october 2025

John Bjarne Grover

Another example for the complex described in the article 'Four parallels: Dickinson, Wittgenstein, Celan, Grover' - see the article for details - here the new example is Wittgenstein/Celan #200 and Dickinson/Grover #1234:

Wittgenstein 'Philosophische Untersuchungen' part 1 #200
Dickinson poem #1234

Celan's letter to Herr Badenhop

Grover 'The Endmorgan Quartet' #1234

The secret to the parallel is found in my study 'The semiotics of TEQ #464 ' - notably the phenomenon of Caravaggio's 'Judas kiss' interpreted on the background of the north wall of Tutankhamon's tomb. As Grover #1234 tells - 'I want to return to the end of mine' - that is, to the end of the 'motorcycle' (when #7 is returned to the righthand side). Is it 'Hitler' who sits behind on the motorcycle and is the 'Exhaust' - while 'Himmler', who seems to drive the motorcycle, is 'Never'? Or is it rather about the two people half hidden on the righthand side? As long as Jesus is going in front of the motorcycle for clearing the road, the reality (a dense fog of illusion) is a game for the two nazis.

Dickinson's poem is a perfect parallel to Celan's letter with his reference to Rimbaud's poem (on the drunken ship). Bark = Fang. My 'Djerba' = 'Im Herbst'?

Now the riddle which I suggested in this little article (which I published this morning) can now be solved already on the same day: Did T.S.Eliot peep in 'Kringlublaðið' when he wrote 'The waste land'? Or even worse, did he write it on behalf of british political interests - and maybe even with a squint to Hitler? It seems that the answer is given by this complex. See also this little study. Eliot's 'The waste land' consists of five poems - which have relevant counterpoints in the above four parallels:

1. The burial of the dead
2. A game of chess
3. The fire sermon
4. Death by water
5. What the thunder said = TEQ #1234 (cp. Tutankhamon's tomb)
= Wittgenstein #200
= Eliot's own poem 'The waste land'
= Dickinson #1234
= Celan letter #200

Hence the conclusion to the riddle is that this is likely to be poetic matters related to issues concerning 'the fifth dimension' - rather than political affiliations.

Sources:

Celan, P.: 'etwas ganz und gar Persönliches'. Briefe 1934-1970. Ausgewählt, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Barbara Wiedemann. Suhrkamp 2019.

Dickinson, E.: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H.Johnson. Little Brown and Company, Boston 1960.

Eliot, T.S.: 'The waste land'. Web page by The Poetry Foundation.

Grover, J.B.: Kringlublaðið. On the web 2025.

Grover, J.B.: Telephone story. On the web 2025.

Grover, J.B.: The Endmorgan Quartet. Collected works vol.2. Vienna 2013.

Grover, J.B.: The fifth dimension. On the web 2024.

Grover, J.B.: The semiotics of TEQ #464. On the web 2025.

Wittgenstein, L: Philosophische Untersuchungen. Herausgegeben von G. E. M. Anscombe, R. Rhees 1952. Ludwig Wittgenstein Werkausgabe, Band 1. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2016, S. 231–485.