What Is A Mazeppist? (Part Nine)

Tying together some of the foregoing threads, I would like to say that a Mazeppist is an individual who discovers herself through hermeneutical appropriations of, and resistances to, the exigencies presented by her moment and milieux. Our moment and milieux are the United States, post-9/11. Mazeppism is a conscious and conscientious effort of self-invention/ self-discovery. In the darkness and poverty of our time, the goal of the Mazeppist is to grow, like Wallace Stevens' philosopher, "fat against the autumn winds/in an autumn that will be perpetual."

Or something like that...