(266.20-268.6) Today's reading consists of two parts. Here, Shaun's glosses in the right margin provide some help in unpacking each section's meaning. The first, as noted by Shaun, covers "PREAUSTERIC MAN AND HIS PURSUIT OF PANHYSTERIC WOMAN." This is early man in search of early woman. On the wall of the children's study, we see a picture of two fighters: "wranglers for wringwrowdy wready," or rowdy fighters ready to do battle in the ring. This is compared to both the showdown between Mutt and Jute (here "meet" and "chaff") and the battle between Aetius and Atilla. Their battle serves as a prelude for the quest for the woman, the "flickerflapper" who is the subject of the "Storiella as she is syung."
With the preliminaries of war taken care of, we move on to the seduction, or as Shaun explains it, "URGES AND WIDERURGES IN A PRIMITIVE SEPT." The woman is now addressed as light ("Belisha beacon, beckon bright!") and color ("That greene ray of earong it waves us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs time on the domisole, with a blewy blow and a windigo."). After this "sybilette" is identified, a charmer (presumably, the victor of the previous paragraph's battle) engages her in an embrace that enflames sexual desire, with "all thinking of it, the It with an itch in it, the All every inich of it, the pleasure each will preen her for, the business each was bred to breed by."
Here, it appears that the universal, all-encompassing sexual desire and appetite serves as the counterpart, or, perhaps, compliment, to the war urge. It also is the means by which the human race will flourish. It is fitting, then, that today's reading ends with a footnote from Isabel, which calls all this "The law of the jungerl" -- the law of the jungle, the law of the young girl, and the law of Jung.
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