V--2nd, Chapter 11 p.324 A room is all that is the case
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 19:19:47 CST 2010
Grant sez to check out Alaine Robbe-Grillet. Makes sense to me.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Malta is where V., when She was the meaning of history, lived, so to speak?
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> It is where She is still more human than inanimate?
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> Subject: Re: V--2nd, Chapter 11 p.324 A room is all that is the case
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> Looking ahead to events later in the chapter:
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> Natural, to Fausto: the rock that is Malta, children, the Maltese language that
> doesn't lend itself to abstract thinking.
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> Unnatural to Fausto: bombs, Spitfires, V.
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> The coordinate system on which he lays out his room seems to be part of the
> aftermath of the War and his encounter with V.
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> Fausto's confessing to the Good Priest(as embodied in his daughter, who springs
> from the rock of Malta, the feminine, the goddess). V.'s a woman who's been
> completely vanquished by the technological, the Bad, which has turned her into
> the Bad Priest. Has Fausto made a deal with the Bad Priest in taking her
> confession?
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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>>"It takes no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a
>>confessional."
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>>So, what is he confessing? is this another Henry Adams-like autobiographical
>>confession by one
>>Fausto?
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>>Fausto.....gonna get to the actual Faust allusion soon, meanwhile,,,,,
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>>The room is inert. p. 325 "The facts call up emotional responses, which no inert
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>>room has ever showed us."
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>>Unlike that lived-in, loved-in room in CofL49 which "knew"...
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>>An inanimate room, so to allude?...If this is an extended portrait of a writer
>>metaphor, then the writer
>>inhabits a carpetless, unadorned room.....death-like to write??
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>>Anyone want to gloss the way it is described via all those coordinate
>>directions?
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