GRGR 5: Hey, Wait Up for Me!

[Alan Westrope]

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

>Finally, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but I'm still running to
>stay in one place!

> 2) "Kenosha" (60.24) Kenosha is the birth place of Orson Welles. Some
>     have suspected that Welles is intended as `The Kid', citing the
>     mimicking of Wellesian film techniques in the text as the reason
>     for mentioning his birth-place. Anyone want to take this up
>     either for or against?

>Previously, I noticed the similarity between the Pointsman-Spectro "Fox"
>argument and the projection room scene in CITIZEN KANE, and I think there
>may be other analogies, but Kenosha for some reason seems to have deeper
>resonances for TRP.  Later, we'll encounter the city's name evoked in odd
>places that would seem to have little or nothing to do with the Master.

>BTW, David Thompson's recent (and typically quirky) bio of Welles, ROSEBUD,
>begins with a section on his youth titled "Kenosha Kid" but TRP and GR
>are not even mentioned!

>    [...] Is TRP making the rules up as he goes along here?

>Yes.  So did Melville.  See Chapters 36-40 of MOBY-DICK for similar use
>of dramatic interchange (and doesn't Joyce do similar stuff in ULYSSES?).

>BTW, I happened to glance at the first paragraph of Chapter 34 of M-D and
>could swear it might have come out of GR!

Bet you never did "The 'Pequod' meets 'THE'," Rose-bud!

The Rose-bud episode of M-D is full of references to excrement and toilets:
the Rose-bud's surgeon has sequestered himself in the Captain's privy because
he prefers its stench of shit to the malodor of putrescent whales; Stubb
refers to the Rose-bud's crew as "Crappoes of Frenchmen"...prefiguring not
just the "Kenosha Kid" toilet-sequence, but also the magnificent Toiletship!
Yes, foax, everything *is* connected!

BTW, happy Thanksgiving to the rest of the Seppoes on the list; to those
who aren't part of Ben Franklin's Cosmic Practical Joke, best wishes for
belated Guy Fawkes Day, Christmas, Boxing Day, Chanukah, whatever..

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