V-2nd C4 The Search for Bridey Murphy / corrigenda

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 01:24:45 CDT 2010


>
>> Here we have madam psy chokes us

or as Maman Sosotris might say, raining carnations?

reading eidetically or sentimentally about a nicens girl havin nice
time reading on the bus,
I met implied coziness (nyuck, nyuck...)

>> the theater within the theater within the boxes that P mixes up on us,
>> like a swift three card monte con man on the streets we were subjected
>> to in the last chapter.

not that I've recovered from the 8 Stencil scenes yet anyway


>> There, though... who really cares ...

seriously, I do care to know more from anybody who's nailed some of
these things down

-- if you're saying that Esther's nose job chapter has a
Reconstruction subtext I'm all ears (maybe I might want to see
Schoenmaker next about that...)

--- and if the bouncing into this scenario can be said to proceed from
something in Chapter 3, as in, maybe, contiguity or juxtaposition to
the Stencil material
does in fact bespeak a relationship amongst the activities and if so
it would be thaaaat... umm, the temptation is strong to parrot RA
Wilson's commentary on Ulysses ("even a relatively boring life can be
examined in a fascinating way" or words to sort of that effect) with
something like, with the fancy-free attention to detail that Stencil
applies to his imaginary scenarios let us now examine a modern-day
instance where we may illuminate hitherto unexamined lives and make
them interesting, and as a side effect, possibly make them (even if
only a bit, but maybe more, one hopes) more or closer to worth
living...


> is there any point in mentioning Tristram Shandy at this juncture as a
> progenitor of EHA?
>

to put it a little better, "nominating Tristram Shandy as a whiskered,
eccentric great-granddaddy of the E of H A?"



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