Superman

 Dante is an odd choice to be inventor of super man since he also invented reptile man swallowed by his sins so much he defamed the beast, a living bestiary, to most minds monstrous. When Ovid transformed men there was always the chance of the divine showing through, like Apollo on Danae, but not in Dante, their sins transformed into reptiles, wolves, snakes, swallowed up the outer form because their minds within were so. They were so long like the beasts that they became transformed by thought. That this would all be rejected to save the pain of confronting it at the last minute was the hope of the extra terrestrial experience of those about to receive it.The first transhuman Dante competition says Ouspensky , from the Braham, “Dante's phrase capable of trans-humanizing a man into a god” (Tertium Organum, 318) was taken from Frank Bucke and other waters you should not wade without a two-pronged stick. The redesign seeks to cut off culture and past, but before it does remember me, says its ghost, and only connect.

There is among the cutest a desire to see who first invented these wares, stuff from the sky, up from the earth, out of labs. It wasn’t from dirt Dante coined the transhuman term in

 Nel suo aspetto tal dentro mi fei,  qual si fé Glauco nel gustar de l'erba  che 'l fé consorto in mar de li altri dèi.  Trasumanar significar per verba  non si poria; però l'essemplo basti  a cui esperienza grazia serba.

Understandably amazed, Glaucus chewed several blades of the grass; seized with an irresistible longing for the sea, he bid the earth farewell and dove into the water, where he was received by the sea gods and ‘deemed worthy to join their company.’ Glaucus was then purified of his mortal elements and cleansed of sin (after reciting a charm nine times and immersing himself in one hundred rivers), thus becoming immortal himself.”

Blake finds Dante a pagan in his reinventions of the classical. To divine the transhuman, going beyond the man, Dante: “Glaucus found a piece of land along the shore that was completely untouched by human civilization, a place of pristine beauty. He observed that the fish he caught became animated as soon as they touched the grass and that they then escaped en masse back into the water. Sound familiar, a man with the soul of a fish or a fish with the soul of a man finds grass a sacrament to cure his mortality which enables him to be god? The terrestrial paradise, the wilderness untouched, union with the sea, all too transparent mediums compared with Blake’s naked vision of reality.

These rivers that flowed through the caverns measureless to man are said to have turned Dante from narcissism to true self-love.  They say Dante becomes a redeemed Narcissus, transhumanized, Narcissus Redeemed. But Blake would say Narcissus cannot be redeemed, Narcissus must die, not so different from the man who wants to be god but turns into a dog.

Blake’s inscriptions over the Hell gate read that “Nature is his [Dante’s] Inspirer & not the Holy Ghost.”  It makes us suppose Yeats a better transhuman than Dante. Yeats once said that out of nature he would never take his bodily form from any natural thing, but such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make. The goldsmiths symbolize the transhuman scientists immortalizing themselves with nano particles and frog genes. You can have Narcissus, Naturae or the Holy Ghost, not that the dogs on the early show know what that means.

Constantly revisiting the bestial from Siegfried to Goethe  was another remarkable achievement of Germany burning the Reichstag, a symbol of Tower affecting more than politics. Created or destroyed, but mostly destroyed, those Twin Towers justified the death of hundreds of thousands of lives in a patriotic act of revenge against the perps, the false perps, the fake perps, who took the same fear pretext as Reichstag. Lacking long established state architecture, gods and things, left what the most epic states had maintained.. This tyranny appealed to the modern who said, the earth has never been more free.

How to get people to say the opposite of the true is fun. In the ancient worlds, or Elizabethan England or now, you speak for the court or are done. How do we know any of this is true ourselves? We don't. But that doesn’t mean we believe the tale. Trends of ages are too large to see. Academics spin  government webs to host the spider and fly. The best we see, unless we read Jeremiah, in Swift, West, Crane, really the list is long. Be done with imaginative visions and what they mean from the rooftops to the ground floor Rome and Babylon. To continually exposit TROJAN ORDERS, history, statues, numbers, hierarchies as veracious adopts the covering cherub as your own. You never know when they deceive.

Coleridge invented genetically altered religion and life. Genetic here smacks metaphor, but not alteration. All supersizing is alter. If you supersize fast food you can supersize the brain. Accelerate, speed up, the earlier you arrive the better, How many touchdowns, home runs or dollars supersizing? What  do the appurtenances of the grounds, the buildings, sculptures, ponds, pools, stairs have to do with politics? When the politics is gone the architecture remains, the tablets of Gilgamesh, Sumerian writing, hieroglyphs, the bones residing in the British Museum, massive structures in ancient China and Rome suggest to imagination the overarching culture of the world.