Cof L49; woven into everything? TAKE TWO
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun May 31 17:05:35 CDT 2009
Paranoia:
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,...
Devils real or just imagined? Yes, the Q: but either way---both ways---The Tristero is some dark shadowy force
1) in History
2) in America now/ In America as good as always
3) in any projection of a world?
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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Cof L49; woven into everything?
Chap 4, p. 81hc "as if the more she collected the more would come to her, until everything she saw, smelled, dreamed, remembered, would, somehow, come to be woven into The Tristero.".....
cf. 'woven' as in the Varos tapestry.
If extensive enough, is the new weave to become the new 'tower' for Oedipa? Which is still everywhere, so, maybe the newly created tapestry just exists within the tower? (I vote Yes to that)
I am reminded of the "imagination all compact" from "Mid-Summer Night's Dream":
" The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
. . .
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery nothing
A local habitation and a name.
(V.i.7-17).
As in the Varos tapestry, The Tristero is woven imaginatively into everything---as poets do?
It takes imagination to weave the Tristero into all things?
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