VLVL2(3): The Skills of the Bushwacker

[Dave Monroe]

"The arrangements of hillside levels, alleyways,
corners, and rooftops created a Casbah topography
that was easy to get lost in quickly, terrain where
the skills of the bushwacker became worth more than
any resoluteness of character, an architectural
version of the uncertainty, the illusion, that must
have overtaken his career for him ever to've been
assigned there in the first place." (VL, Ch. 3, p. 25)

Main Entry: bush·whack 
Pronunciation: 'bush-"hwak, -"wak
Function: verb
Etymology: back-formation from bushwhacker
Date: 1866
transitive senses : AMBUSH; broadly : to attack
suddenly : ASSAULT
intransitive senses : to clear a path through thick
woods especially by chopping down bushes and low
branches
- bush·whack·er noun

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=bushwhack

Benjamin’s account of Baudelaire, and of the emergence
of modernism from a new experience of city technology
which transcends all the older habits of bodily
perception, is both singularly relevant and singularly
antiquated in the light of this new and virtually
unimaginable quantum leap in technological alienation:

He was a moving-target-survivor subscriber, a true
child of the war, because except for the rare times
when you were pinned or stranded the system was geared
to keep you mobile, if that was what you thought you
wanted. As a technique for staying alive it seemed to
make as much sense as anything ....

http://www.culik.com/weatherr/Pomo/JamesonHotel.html

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