IVIV the uprootedness of modernity

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 30 06:30:07 CDT 2009


Monroe focused on these (with spec links):
"... it ain't just them gone, but the turf itself"

"Grindit up into little pieces"
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One reading for me sorta links it with the epigraph. What was there
originally is gone.......

we are going to have TRP do a few notes of
some human meaning for that in Chap 2.

Associationally, I see this as an example of what TRP
explored globally in Against the Day: the loss of
people's homeland, their natural places to live. Most
generally, by modernity in that work. By nations fighting
wars over boundaries; by "development' thru money and power;
by the uprootedness of millions. 

Here it is a smack at "urban development", ala Robert Moses
and whoever. whatever in LA, embodied in Wolfmann. [Chap 2]










      



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