VL-IV something Dave quoted in the 2003 read

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 08:34:34 CST 2008


On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
>
> Disalienation in the traditional city, then, involves the practical
> reconquest of a sense of place and the construction or reconstruction
> of an articulated ensemble which can be retained in memory and which
> the individual subject can map and remap along the moments of mobile,
> alternative trajectories.
> -
>
> while I followed the entire essay about as well as I have assimilated
> _Vineland_ (which is to say, large sections sailed right by me), that
> sentence caught my eye.  Perhaps that "articulated ensemble" is what
> is being constructed in _Vineland_, and especially in Chapter 4, where
> Zoyd makes his rounds in Vineland and environs sort of like Leopold
> Bloom did in Dublin.

I'm thinking, well, "vineland" (vine + land) is the key word there ,,,

> "Feliz Navidad"

Prospero año y felicidad ...




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