Atdtda26: Lovely to see you, 728-730

[Mark Kohut]

Saw a quote from Lacan basically saying it is thru mirrors that we moderns confirm our identity.........give me 25 words on THAT when you feel like it.............
   
  And, mask not entirely complementary either......
   
  in my upcoming hosting involving masks----the text not me!---I have some associations with Walter Benjamin from other parts of the text. Benjamin finds thru Baudelaire I think that masks come with modernity...................
   
  

Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
  Paul Nightingale wrote:
> Dally transformed by experience, integrated. Perhaps surprised to see the
> same reflection in the mirror: her appearance "the same American mask with
> the same American eyes looking through".

brief addendum: the "American" modifier not completely
complementary, cf the Japanese guys in Colorado likening
the American spirit to a sword, and Umeki Peachblossom
saying Americans basically have no shame ---
Dalley, Pynchon has her admit around this section somewhere,
has snatched purses, perhaps lethally defended herself,
is packing heat - she is no innocent 'broad...


       
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