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[Tore Rye Andersen]

Keith:

> Right on! And also like when we quit sitting around the campfire
> telling stories and started isolating ourselves with books and
> privately stimulating ourselves with stories we buy. Another
> pornography, another example of taking the fake in place of the real.

Sarcasm notwithstanding, that does seem to be pretty much the gist of
GR, especially the chapter about Tchitcherine and the NTA. In the village
Tchitcherine rides into on p. 356, the people are indeed gathered around
campfires, telling or singing each other stories:
 
"The boy and girl go on battling with their voices - and Tchitcherine 
understands, abruptly, that soon someone will come out and begin to write
some of these down in the New Turkic Alphabet he helped frame... and this 
is how they will be lost." (GR, 357).
 
And yes, I do realize that this statement appears in the middle of a very
fat book, and so, of course, does the author of the statement. Sublime
irony, eh? But apart from this implicit irony, GR is pretty unequivocal
in its denouncement of print. Two of the characters in GR who do love
their books and their print are Pointsman (his beloved Book) and Blicero,
who lugs a copy of the new Rilke to Africa: "just off the presses when
he embarked for Südwest, a gift from Mother at the boat, the odor of new
ink dizzying his nights as the old freighter plunged tropic after tropic"
(GR, 99). Pointsman and Blicero... Think about it.... 		 	   		  
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