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[Dave Monroe]

... well, got me one o' them free e-mail addresses so's I can check in
anywhere I can get my hands on a terminal.  Too much down-time, I guess.  
Might be a bit before the new subscription kicks in, so I'm flying blind 
here since early yesterday morning, but ...

Anyway, saw The Cell today.  Not a Great Movie (much less Film), by any 
means, but Very Interesting Indeed nonetheless.  Directed by Tarsem Singh, 
who recycles imagery/sets from his "Losing My Religion" (REM) and 
"Heart-Shaped Box" (Nirvana) videos, pays tribute to Jan Svankmajer along 
the way, and, in general, provides mainstream, multiplex (16-screener for me 
today) cinema with a well-needed irruption of the surreal (see also those 
introductory shorts to the Pokemon films).  But why YOU all might be 
interested is, the (paranoid-)schizophrenic villian's Dominant, 
sadomasochistic side Bleaches his victims ... geddit? geddit? ... AND the 
film was interrupted by the sound of sirens, the flashing of strobes ...
just That Kind of Day, folks ...

Which reminds me, though, on jbor's earlier mention of the
unrepresentability of nuclear apocalypse (and, again, cf. Frances Ferguson's 
notion of the "nuclear sublime," as well as that certain sublimity involved 
in the attempt to represent any such sublimely unrepresentable atrocity), 
think also Emmanuel Levinas' comment that "death is never now" or somesuch, 
made, I believe, in response to Heidegger's notion that one's death is all 
that is uniquely one's own.

The implication being that death is precisely that which is NOT one's own. 
Death as an asymptotic limit, rather than a contiguous terminal point, of 
life (not to mention suffering), an ungraspable, unrepresntable final 
delta-t, indeed.  At least for the deceased.  For  Levinas, however, and, 
perhaps, obviously, the time of death--and, thus, I imagine, the time of the 
representation of death--is the time not of the deaceased, but of the 
survivors.  But if there are no survivors ...
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