Theatre/theater?

[Thomas Colin]

On the 7 theatres:
No, I'm not sure these are the only 7 occurrences. I could have missed a 
few. So, Let's all hunt down them damn theeeaders, boy!
More seriously: I was aking about this particular theatre/theater thing, but 
that doesn't mean I am not taking into account such notions as stage, 
puppet, role-playing, spectacle (as in Debord's "Society of the 
Spectacle,"), word as theatre, but also theatre as world, theatre as 
carnival, theatre as metaphor for the reading-process (extra- and 
intra-textual), plus cinema, as mentioned in the text, as used in the text, 
as "analogon" (Barthes), as simulation, the Text and its always defferred 
performance in the text, quotations, citations, e tutti quanti : 
Theatricality (in a broad, plural sense) in GR is an ENORMOUS subject.
  Your analysis sounds good to me, altough very different from the 
perspective I'd adopted up to now. That's why I need to readjust a little. 
A-and problem is, I have big difficultie with the Rilke and Cartel 
references, or subtext, or intertext, or pre-text, whatever, because that's 
not what I personally prefer in GR, that's not what I understand best, too, 
and because, in the end, I'm starting to wonder if it is really what matters 
most... and if one could not do without it altogether. That is, not ignore 
it. No misunderstanding here. But perhaps insist a little more on the 
narrative economy and the BIG BIG stylistic aspect, which is really what I 
love in GR. Ah of course style and voices are mirrored and literalized in 
themes... you can't take one without the other... I know.
  Sorry for this muddle of a post. I'll try to be clearer when I have a 
little spare time (should be OK this week-end).
  Best.
Toma
Keep (insert adj.) but (insert vb.). Now THIS is consensual :)


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