V2nd, C3: pov in sec. viii

[Mark Kohut]

I have tried to block the scene. It has some variations in ways it can be 
blocked as written, maybe,
although I would LOVE to be corrected by a plister...........I would like one 
blocking possibility but
that ain't P's way with words so why should it be with certain scenes? 
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the Garden indicated has some pictures of it online but none show nor mention a 
theater.
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I tried to get info on theater design. I know there is at least one architect on 

the plist. Help?
 
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    * House left and house right refer to how the audience perceives the stage. 
The 

audience’s left is referred to as house left, and the audience’s right is 
referred to as house right. (These may also be called camera left and camera 
right for a filmed or sometimes unfilmed production.) 
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 http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/the-allegory-of-tragedy-24-x-33-in-h-gustav



 
 
1st) if the statue pov is speaking in the third person, ala Adams, it would 
speak of the sun on it as it does noticing it on the carpet and part of itself. 

 
2nd) I have tried to block the scene. Major assumption is that, boxes being 
elite spaces close to the stage, light would come into the corridor from the 
stage end, light being another perk....as the corridor went on, it might seem to 


wind curved with perhaps no more windows? 

 
I can not find out much about theater design with any certainty but it seems 
logical that theaters, which 

open mostly by evening, would be situated so as to draw western light to the 
stage side. It could be lit behind the set.
 
It also seems logical that a statue would be at that end of the corridor where 
the light comes---or perhaps in the corridor kinda
exactly in the middle of where the boxes are. This might better explain the 
'vantage" after the one guy falls.

 
So it does seem to me all participants enter from the stage end. The orange 
evening light comes into the corridor that way. 

That is where the man casting a (long) shadow stands. Those who leave, leave 
down the corridor away from the stage.

I cannot draw even if this were not a computer BUT
 
light _______________________________________    
_______statue ____CORRIDOR ______________________________
                             or statue.
     BOX      BOX     BOX     BOX
 
should all be curved...work it out......

 16th C. stage design
http://www.jstor.org/pss/470284



----- Original Message ----
From: "Krafft, John M." <krafftjm at muohio.edu>
To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 11:38:01 AM
Subject: Re: V2nd, C3: pov in sec. viii

Intriguing suggestion that the pov is that of the allegorical statue of Tragedy: 





could it see itself turned orange by the sun? Would Stencil's (experimentally?) 
adopting such a pov have to redound so much to his ethical discredit?

Has anyone tried to block the scene? Do all the actors in it enter from the 
same, stage end of the corridor? Is the window at that end? (Assuming the 
theater is an actual historical one, we might find out which direction it faced 
and deduce whether the stage side had a west-facing window.) The statue? If 
Lepsius enters Box 2 from the stage end, does everyone else come in at the other 





end and enter Box 3, or come in the other end and pass box 2 to get to 1, or 
come in the stage end and pass Box 2 to get to 3, or come in the stage end and 
enter Box 1, or what?

jmk

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