Subject/Objective Reality/Illusion
Judy Panetta
judy at firemist.com
Wed Nov 21 13:29:49 CST 2001
Barbara...?
Subjective is me me me it's all about me but enough about me what do you
think of me me and my shadow me and the moon moon in june april and
september try to remember that no member of the human race keeps warm my bit
of space myself and I Aye-Aye eye of the storm eye of the needle needle me
need me some loco weed locomotive emotive demotive denotive of heart and
soul and my mother's little black cat.
Objective connotes the cadaver on a slab incisive insights with a short
sharp chop ticking off lists noting the time intervals endeavoring to
extricate and separate exceedingly fine detail as fact fact is final and
sterile and a sterling example of good scholarship.
imho
Subjective, anyone?
...apologies to Stoppard.
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> Behalf Of barbara100 at jps.net
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:52 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Subject/Objective Reality/Illusion
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>
> So what are objective and subjective readings anyway? We love to
> toss those
> words around--I remember them bouncing off the walls in class--but what do
> they mean in the context of reading a novel? A Thomas Pynchon novel, for
> example. Is an objective reading one where we focus on the intent of the
> writer--Gottfried as a gross example of the consequence of war
> and political
> corruption--and a subjective reading one where we feel the text through
> personal filters--the flush of my cheeks when I pictured him stuffed into
> his death capsule wrapped in bridal lace and Imipolex G? If these are our
> objective and subjective choices, I'd have to ask, How could we
> read one way
> without the other? Objective/Subjective--it's like the yin and yang of
> literature, and reality.
>
>
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