VV(12): Sferics

[Dave Monroe]

Realized later I should also, of course, have noted
that, of course, often elements, themes, issues,
anxieties, concerns, whatever (inevitably?) work their
way into texts whether or not as a result of conscious
 authorial intention, effort.  Background noise,
what's in the air, whatever.  To perhaps the point
where it's not discernable whether or not such
elements et al. are intentional.  Sound about right? 
Certainly, such has been my argument here often
enough.  A thousand pardons ...

--- jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at hotmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 02:11:26 -0600
> 
> > "Mirror-time," North(America)/South(Africa),
> 1956(1963)/1922.  Of course,
> > both the Jacobeans and the Gothicists often set
> their works in the
> > ((decadent) Catholic) South so as to comment on
> the ((normative) Protestant)
> > North.  Much like contemporary science fiction,
> for example, uses the
> > future, or the extraterrestrial, or the
> allohistorical to comment on the
> > present, the earthly, the historical (and I'd
> suggest comparing the
> > so-called "flatness" of Pynchon's characters with
> that of the postwar SF
> > Pynchon admires ["Luddite"], or, for that matter,
> with the Jacobean
> > satirists, like Jonson--it's not necessarily about
> "characters," now, is
> > it?) ...
> 
> If not for invagination we'd all be hollow, as empty
> as the vacuum between
> strands of DNA, or that tree staring blankly at the
> western wall. Cell and
> molecular biologists, biochemists, etc., used to
> believe in something called
> The Central Dogma. With the discovery of reverse
> transcriptase in the late
> sixties, that crumbled like a stone buddha in
> Afghanistan. With prion
> diseases centrality itself is under severe stress.
> Life is a field with no
> clear divisions between surface, center or
> ecological niche. The differences
> between sender and receiver, signifier and
> signified, sferic and the
> circular gyro-bed is no longer clear to those
> seeking to control the course
> of historical developement. The falcon cannot hear
> the falconer. The falcon
> may be the falconer.
> 
> jody
> 


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