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two faced: He simultaneously deals in good and evil, dispossession and restoration and calls his crimes, “Mercy or Reward.” He is not the King of garlands and of beauty, justice and peace. Indeed, the ivy wreaths and the masks, and the prowling of Dionysus in the grip of ecstasy are known to Grecians. There is no confusion as to his midnight howl or as to who he is.
In Job’s Judaism guilt and punishment orthodoxy, the religious and criminal entwine. The Yahweh & Satan Corporation partial and Saturnine, may assault anytime on another whim-will-and-woe479 scandal. At future meetings, Yahweh will praise, and Satan dispraise, and Job by trial pay.
As long as Job revolts, his tragic heroism equals Josef K’s. He blossoms into the Lupin of the Lupin Fields. c
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Yahweh, the Lord of Job’s fetters, Creator of Cosmos and Leviathan, entangles heaven and abyss, Death Wish and Life Wish in Whirlpool and Whirlwind. There 3⁄4 Death Wish and Life Wish conjugate shadow and death: to be a shade in Sheol is to be a shade in the world when Job submits. Descent is ascent to a shady-death, a shadow-life. Condemned, he shall be praised to be accused; to be terror-tried to be restored; to be praised to be condemned, and so on, ad infinitum, as if in a magic spell. Trapped, he shall dwell in Sheol and not Sheol. There 3⁄4 a real Job shall undergo numberless trials. He shall return to infinite Theatres of the Absurd, not with the dignity of Sisyphus’ devotion to never surrender beneath mighty might 3⁄4 and revolt, sí sí, revolt. He will suffer to be restored and to be tried and to be restored to eternally return to another Sheol and Jobel to see another mighty Whirlwind again and again, ignoring that both states, equally entangled, are equally the same. Job shall never know with absolute certainty that both states, equally entangled, are equally the same, and that the probability is one hundred per cent. Thus, in hismisery,JobshallyearnforSheol:theWhirlwind;andfortheWhirlwind:Sheol. Hisascentisdescent,andhis
479 I have borrowed this term from Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy. Job’s Yahweh is a Dionysian hurricane. It is as if Yahweh had crowned himself with ivy, taken the thyrsus, and had put an end to the Socratic man (Job). To Niezsche, Whim, Will, Woe (Wahn, Wille, Wehe) are the mothers of tragedy. Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy. New York: Dover Publications, 1995. Chapter 20. 75b
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