wizards of art (was: Theatre/Theater. The Text Machine Gets on the Stage...)

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Lycidas at worldnet.att.net schrieb:

> The principle reference text is Rilke. We could,
> make a long list of books that are important to the theatre
> of GR--Marshall McLuhan, Weber, Brown, so on and so on, but
> Rilke is used (and used and mentioned by characters) in a
> different way and more extensively than any we would put on
> the list.


  according to my ever so humble opinion there's one work of art which is for gr 
  as important as the "duineser elegien". i'm talking about "the wizard of oz"  
  [1939], which seems to have a strutural function for the novel. furthermore,  
  it's a movie, & cinema is the epistemologically leading art form in gr.  


> Both Pynchon and Rilke ask the same age-old
> questions about Man, his world, the cosmos and Man's place
> in it. In both authors it is human consciousness that is the
> cause of what we might call the second falling--a separation
> from the "whole" and the resulting antagonistic
> relationships that Man experiences.


  isn't that a bit, well, general?! these remarks can considered to be true for 
  nearly any modern author. in this statement of yours one could easily   
  substitute the names "pynchon and rilke" by, say, "joyce and thomas mann",   
  nicht wahr? 


> The answers that Pynchon
> offers to these age-old questions is often an ironic play on
> both the current state of affairs and the answers that Rilke
> provides.  


  what you call "irony", according to hegel "an empty standing-above-things", is 
  actually "black humor". our man is always right in the middle of things     
  themselves ...

                                   loudly laughing: kfl