IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 02:56:43 CDT 2009


alice wellintown wrote:
>Why? What motivates Larry's quest

Okay, we are spectators of a piece of art. In a quick McLuhanish way, 
a story was in the mouth and in the ears. Then with printing, the 
story was in a book.  With movies, the book was in the movie and the 
story was within the book.  With TV the movie is in the TV and so 
on.  Now why does it bring us pleasure to witness a quest for 
transformation?  Does it give us a kind of rebirth to oppose the 
inevitable pointlessness and stupidity of our own deaths?  Alice has 
left hubris and catharsis far behind.  Good news!  Carry on. 




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