Ethical Diversions

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 16, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

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

Nobody, the point is to write it, not read it.



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>> Ch. 3, "Pinpricks on the Ars(e) Narrandi: Liminality
>> and Oven-Games in Gravity's Rainbow," pp. 115-67
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>>    "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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