For Joseph (from Group W Bench & the Romantics); why Alice closed the dump on Thanksgving and other Komspiracies from the Left

[Michael Bailey]

Structure of V. - if there is a V. shape to it, if there are 2 wings...

then V. herself should be the point of the V. and there shouldn't be
anybody like her, but everybody else should have a duplicate.

If the 2 topmost points represent Benny and Sidney (or vice versa),
then perhaps all the other characters range between V and B or between
V and S on some kind of continuum

and does the positioning mean we can assume something like

Benny / left side of the V / lower class / left wing / the id / manual
labor / experiencing / younger

Sidney / right side of the V / upper class / right wing / the superego
/ theorizing / older

You can probably see how impaired is my ability to see the V. pattern
from these speculations...hope somebody else will elaborate more
satisfyingly


so, now for something completely different...okay, let me see now, harumph...

ancient genres: epic, dramatic, lyric, tragic, comic, pastoral,
something like that

having to do with, like, maybe,
a) why they are telling the story (theme, or what they are trying to
get across) (the deeper why, of course, (like, why try to get
something across?  if trying to get something across, why create
literature?  et al) isn't going to be a literary term but a
philosophical one)
b) how they are telling it (who to, where, oral or written or acted out)


newer ones - these two -
romance like romance of the rose, or Faerie Queene allegory symbolism
vs novel like, Don Quijote where the story "makes points" but
characters aren't pointers per se to something beyond themselves like
they might be in a romance?

- other new things since Greek times?

trunk poetry like Emily Dickinson

tv scripts
movie scripts
advertising scripts

but can we overlay the romance/novel distinction right over top of
modern/postmodern - completely different distinction, like Ulysses is
modernist romance, deliberately creating a symbolic universe, written
in the modernist style,
while maybe like, Princess Cassamassima or Man Without Characteristics
might be more of a modernist novel telling a tale and creating
characters?