VLVL(5) At the Movies and on the Tube

[Terrance]

 I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who
> loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say
> to her, 'I love you madly,' because he knows that she
> knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these
> words have already been written by Barbara Cartland.






> Still, there is a solution. He can say, 'As Barbara
> Cartland would put it, I love you madly....' At this
> point, having avoided false innocence, having said
> clearly that it is no longer possible to speak
> innocently, he will nevertheless have said what he
> wants to say to the woman: that he loves her, but he
> loves her in an age of lost innocence. If the woman
> goes along with this, she will have received a
> declaration of love all the same. Neither of the two
> speakers will feel innocent, both will have accepted
> the challenge of the past, of the already said, which
> cannot be eliminated; both will consciously and with
> pleasure play the game of irony ... But both will have
> succeeded, once again, in speaking of love." (pp.
> 67-8)

Oh Jesus, maybe they should just get a motel room with mirrors on the
ceiling. 

We are all just prisoners here of wastedwords &
californicatingpanopticisms.