Recog ch 2

[alice wellintown]

Good point. Since the text is ambiguous, those surmises are worth
considering. What is implicit? How is this implied?
WG, like TP, conflates a bombed out world and a bombed out mind. Wyatt
is unreliable, but we must read things through his perspective. Is it
dawn? Is he insane? Is he suffering fever? Does the coffee make him a
bit jumpy? What of the styles of narrative, the pastiche of WG? The
art dealer seems a character out of hard-boiled detective fiction or
film noir. The clever irony you note here is obvious enough, but there
are several layers of irony and style at work here.

Wyatt paints at night and breaks off with fever at dawn. What's up
with the dawn? Why is Wyatt so outraged by a proposition made at dawn?


> I don't believe the novel is explicit about what offends Wyatt about
> Cremer's offer (Wyatt calls it "insane"); readers are left to surmise
> for themselves.  Perhaps its a genuine moral indignation at the
> proposed dishonesty....but perhaps its also a matter of pride: Wyatt
> may be offended by the suggestion that his work is not sufficiently
> brilliant to attract favorable notices on its own, that he would have
> to pay for a good review of his paintings.  The irony that his genuine
> canvases would only provoke "forged" criticism is obvious.
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I guess Wyatt doesn't hope for an eternal reward.
>>>
>>> All his history to me at one point suggested that.
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>> which things made you think that?
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>> for me the idea cropped up when he talks about "the vanishing point"
>> which is suggestive but I'm not sure how to express why that makes me
>> think about post-life planning...
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>> mainly, though, the best indicator is that he doesn't act in his own
>> epicurean interests, but refuses Cremer's kind offer --
>>
>> If he doesn't believe in some kind of transcendental rightness that he
>> has to answer to, be judged by, and expect non-earthly rewards from,
>> then why does he do that?
>>
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