IVing IV 'indict a bean burrito', p. 277

[Michael Bailey]

yer puttin a pair of calipers on it and sayin' it doesn't fit the tolerances...


 alice wellintown wrote:
> I does tax the reader, all this indeterminacy and ambiguity. The
>  ambiguity is fun because it invites lots of connections and readings,
>  but a close reading of the text, a new critical reading, doesn't hold
>  blood. It's just a his and her story of tangled lines. And, since we
>  follow the clews through a burned out mind, who forgets, gets caught
>  in his own smoke screens and fog, it's not possible to construct a
>  meaningful plot or traditional reading or characters and their
>  motivations. That the text only calls attention to itself and that it
>  is not such an attractive beauty has been tabled so that we may
>  proceed with the set-piece parody analysis; how the text means not
>  what, since its meaning can not be determined. Over- determining it?
>  Yeah, that too.
>

like overclocking a CPU, some people over-determine the text.
Text geeks, I'm guessin'

>
>  >> finish her statements, and because he assumes the, "I'll protect you
>  >> position" here, I read it as Larry's misreading her yet again.
>  >
>  > yeah, that wasn't how I was going to finish her sentence.
>  > I can't remember how I was going to finish her sentence...but that
>  > wasn't it...hmmm

ah yes: "that I could trust you" - that was how I was thinking of her going on
at that place...

so naturally Doc doesn't get it quite right.  But that's part
of the interplay.  They aren't Tommy and Tuppence, and
the part of her that I suggested exists, the romantic streak that
(due to workplace ambitions and sisterly obligations to the
feminist cause) no longer completely controls her actions,
probably finds this attempt - and the failure - a bit touching.



-- 
- "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
just fine!"