VV(18): "Tourists"

[David Morris]

Oh, I should also have added that this escape from pain and discontent and 
Time is analogous to the state of Death which is implied by both authors 
below.  This concept is also richly developed by N.O. Brown in _Life Against 
Death_.

DM

>This text is the perfect accompaniment to this chapter and the Tourist 
>theme.  Continual movement hastened by dissatisfaction with the present and 
>a need to be entertained by the sights of the next location are at the 
>heart of the Tourist world of V.  The concept of Time is also thus evoked 
>by the need for the next thing.  This is why when V. falls in love she 
>leaves the realm of Tourism "now suddenly found herself excommunicated: 
>bounced unceremoniously into the null-time of human love"
>
>V. has found contentment, and thus has lost her need to move on and her 
>perception of Time.  "His description of them is a well-composed and 
>ageless still-life of love at one of its many extremes."  This description 
>is apt. For V. Time has stood still.  The present is enough.
>
>>My soul, could it be dead? "'Have you then come to the point of such 
>>torpor, paralysis, that you are not happy except in your pain?  If so, let 
>>us flee towards countries that are analogous to Death.
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