For the love of Norman Brown [Robert Gibson Patterson: "Norman O.

Brown: A 20th Century Intellectual Odyssey", 2004/ Norman O. Brown, "Love's Body", 1966]

Literal meanings are icons become stone idols; the stone sepulcher, the stone tables of the law. The New Testament remained hidden in the Old, like water in the rock; until the cross of Christ broke the rock open. Iconoclasm, the word like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces. Cf. Luther cited in Hahn, Luthers Auslegungsgrundstze, 190n. Jeremiah XXIII, 29. (LB-185) Only the exaggerations are true. Credo quia absurdum; as in parables or poetry. Aphoristic form is suicide, or selfsacrifice; for truth must die. Intellect is sacrifice of intellect, or fire; which burns up as it gives light. Cf. Bhagavad Gita, IV, 19. Broken flesh, broken mind, broken speech. Truth, a broken body: fragments, or aphorisms; as opposed to systematic form or methods: Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire farther; whereas Methods, carrying the show of a total, do secure men, as if they were at farthest. Bacon in McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 102-103. Systematic form attempts to evade the necessity of death in the life of the mind as of the body; it has immortal longings on it, and so it remains dead. Ducunt volentem fata,

nolentem trahunt. The rigor is rigor mortis; systems are wooden crosses, Procrustean beds on which the living mind is pinned. Aphorism is the form of death and resurrection: the form of eternity. Kaufmann, Nletzsche, 66. (LB-187-8)

http://www.rgpost.com/media/Brown.pdf
http://library.ucsc.edu/book/export/html/1543 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_O._Brown [Theodore Roszak, "The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition" 1969: http://libgen.info/view.php?id=496494 ]