GRGR (2) "great bright hand"

keith woodward woodwaka at uwec.edu
Mon Jun 7 13:17:54 CDT 1999


s~Z, building on Terrence,
>Here's a nice illustration of Terrance's point. (I think.) ...
>
>(p. 30) "But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion.
>The illusion of control. That A could do B. (ed., A never did) But that
>was false. Completely. No one can DO. Things only happen, A and B are
>unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable. . . ."
>   "More Ouspenskian nonsense," whispers a lady brushing by on the arm
>of a dock worker. Odors of Diesel fuel and Sous le Vent mingle as they
>pass.

A-and:

"How can Mexico play, so at his ease, with these symbols of randomness and
fright?  Innocent as a child, perhaps unaware--perhaps--that in his play he
wrecks the elegant rooms of history, threatens the idea of cause and effect
itself.  What if Mexico's whole *generation* have turned out like this?
Will Postwar be nothing but 'events,' newly created one moment to the next?
No links?  Is it the end of history?" (56)

Keith W





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