Voice of the Shuttle

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
To: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:40 PM
Subject: Voice of the Shuttle


> "Ambitious," by the way, is an understatement ...
>
> http://vos.ucsb.edu/
>
> One of THEE great sites, lit'rary or otherwise ...
>
> --- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > While continuing to guide confused undergraduates
> > through the metaphysical walkabouts of The Prelude,
> > Liu in 1994 designed Voice of the Shuttle
> > (vos.ucsb.edu), an ambitious online humanities
> > resource....
>

Todorov explains the process thus:

"In a world which is indeed our world, the one we know, a world without
devils, sylphides, or vampires, there occurs an event which cannot be
explained by the laws of this same familiar world. The person who
experiences the event must opt for one of two possible solutions: either he
is the victim of an illusion of the senses, of a product of the
imagination--and laws of the world then remain what they are; or else the
event has indeed taken place, it is an integral part of reality--but then
this reality is controlled by laws unknown to us."

Jack G. Voller, "Todorov among the Gothics: Structuring the Supernatural
Moment," Contours of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Eighth
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Michele K.
Langford, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987): 197-206.
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/enec981/Group/liz.sublime.html#voller2