votex & ashes

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How very self-indulgent! Notwithstanding your
unconscionable impudence in answering with such
plausible gravity. We can't inject you with
imagination so we will have to put up with your
reducing our posts to lexical coincidence. And, as to
questions posed in order that discussion might proceed
in some direction other than that charted by your
supreme command of this ship of folly, we can't  pry
your hands from the wheel. Why Jbor, if it must come
to that, what are we to do? So long ago as that tragic
day, 11th of September, did not some list participant
write an incomparable letter to this Listserve warning
that the politics of one Californian American and the
ego of one Australian would surely be the ruin of us
all.  Now, welcome aboard no fabulous orgy, but a ship
of entropy shored upon these ruined fragments edited
and chiseled down to an Ezra's liberal-fascist
conspiracy and a Pound of cheap Australian sterling. 

"The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art
is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other
words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of
events, which shall be the formula of that particular
emotion…." 

- T.S. Eliot

You may want to read Eliot's "Preludes" 
I am moved by fancies that are curled 
Around these images, and cling: 
The notion of some infinitely gentle 
Infinitely suffering thing.

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh; 
The worlds revolve like ancient women 
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

Eliot's fragmented worlds are like ancient women
gathering fuel in vacant lots. The protagonist of the 
 Modernist CL49 is named Oediapa. She is ancient and
modern. The novel includes a fragmented  world or
worlds and these revolve around her-the novel is
organized not so much by the literary application of a
philosophical or scientific principle as in the short
stories (Entropy)  as by the actions and thoughts of
the protagonist. Like Eliot's women in "The
Wasteland", Oedipa inhabits a land of waste,
sterility, fairytale towers and 'Snow White' 60s 
parody. I have to agree with Jay the bore, the
re-working of "Under the Rose" and Pynchon's criticism
of his slow learning tales tells us a lot. 

  


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