Theatre/theater

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Sorry this is all bits and parts. 

Zone, some Notes:

I approach this from two directions. First, the allusion to
Conrad's Heart of Darkness (GR.281) and signs, doubles, and
ancestors. Conrad provides the journey up the Congo--heart
of darkness, heart of Man (consciousness) and colonial
program. 



GR.281

"Signs will find him here in the zone
" (see Signs)

"Ancestors will reassert themselves
. (see Ancestors,
African and Herero, Dutch, Russian, French, American and
English-Puritan-Lyle Bland, Fisk, Amy/Geli, German/American
Inflation Corporate octopus etc. 

Herero ancestors
.boarders fall away and the Zone envelops
him, his own Wasps in buckled black.... 

"Signs of Katje,  and doubles too
"  (see Doubles) 

"Darkest Africa" 

Postmodern-extension of Modernism and "Postmodern" (see
McHale CP) 

"Parody" of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which epitomizes
many features of modernist fiction. Modernism: diverse
cross-fertilization between cultures, between art forms and
between disciplines-the need to confront violence, nihilism,
and despair; the fascination with, but fear of, the
unconscious; the centrality of a dramatized narrator who is
not omniscient but rather himself searching for
understanding; a symbolic richness which invites multiple
interpretations (influence of French Symbolism), radical
redefinition of the real (W and H James, Freud, Bergson)
Colonial programs, ruthless exploitation, journey (up the
Congo) or Modern (T.S. Eliot secularized) quest or symbolic
exploration into the darkest heart (consciousness) of Man,
manipulation of the reader's experience of time and space by
means of disruption of narrative chronology and
ontological/epistemological differentiation and the
representation of consciousness (stream and multiple) by the
description of events, and the use of the  reflexivity and
self-consciousness. 



"It all comes down to this day-to-day knitting and
unraveling...Enzian would like to be more out of the process
than he is--to be able to see where it's going...."

We get these Arrangements and Interregnum (GR.294-295)that
involve the characters and the groups (Africans, Russians,
Germans, Americans, English, French,  G.E. & Co, and the
Real and reel power "colonial families"  in the zone
chapters leading up to WWIII (Cold War) GR.314 and lost
Herero powers (GR.316) and finally, Enzian's moving to the
zero, between "paranoia and "anti-paranoia" or "perhaps it's
theater." 

See GR.290-291 bottom of the page, "It's arrangement....
knit and undone coming himself."

and GR.302  "He wants to preserve what he can of her from
Their several entropies
" contrast with Enzian's step
towards getting out of the process. 

see Slothrop (war peace?) skids into the zone like a
planchette on a Ouija board..." 283  Time/Space GR.286
clocks and calendars, dble integral GR.301-302, Uncertainty
and categories blurred badly GR.303, Marvy--language, drunk,
limericks, white stetson, Slothrop upside down, Russian
fools, GE Hermes, light/dark Icy Noctiluca.