Ethical Diversions

Ghetta Life ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Fri Jun 16 08:06:40 CDT 2006




Such gobbletygoop.  Do people get paid for this?  Who reads this?

>Ch. 3, "Pinpricks on the Ars(e) Narrandi: Liminality
>and Oven-Games in Gravity's Rainbow," pp. 115-67
>
>    "These traces play hide-and-seek with the reader
>....  What I have been arguing all along is that this
>play of hide-and-seek is one of the most serious
>'games' this work is playing, one in which seriousness
>and anxiety are hopelessly (hopefully?) mixed up with
>a play of openness.  There is nothing to secure that
>such textual traces will be read in terms of traumatic
>loss, for their liminality is not underwritten by
>anything in the narrativethat is also not overwritten
>in this scattering encyclopedia....  How can a text
>work in its unguaranteed posibilities?  This is what
>is at stake in Gravity's Rainbow in general and it and
>in its performative, erratic and minimal ethics in
>particular.  And it is in this sense the book takes
>perhaps its greatest risk with the trace of the
>holocaut, which it brings to the threshold of
>perception, neither remembered, nor forgotten." (pp.
>166-7)
>
>
>
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