VL page 77 Sasha & Turn.2
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 29 10:28:52 CDT 2003
Dave Monroe wrote:
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> Here on Gilligan's Isle ...
>
> --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> >
> > The vamp, the national hero, the beatnik. the
> > neurotic housewife, the gangster, the star, the
> > charismatic tycoon ...
They are no longer images of another way of life but rather freaks or
types of the same life. serving as an affirmation rather than
negation of the established order.
Kinda like the characters in VL.
Bertolt Brecht has sketched the theoretical foundations for
these efforts.
Hobbes and Brecht. Now that's funny. But true.
Brecht answers that the contemporary world can be thus represented
only if it is represented as subject to change[3]- as the state of
negativity which is to be negated. This is doctrine which has to
be learned. comprehended. and acted upon; but the theater is
and ought to be entertainment. pleasure. However,
entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment
may be the most effective mode of learning.
Smoke signaling on the WWW. Now that's entertainment!
In this attempt, the great "conservative" of literature
joins forces with the radical activist.
Tom Pynchon is a conservative.
Creating and moving in a medium which presents the absent,
the poetic language is a language of cognition-but a cognition
which subverts the positive. In its cognitive function, poetry
performs the great task of thought:
Tom wanted to be a poet.
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