TRTR(I.3) Pattern Recognition Redux

[Richard Ryan]

"Violence all enclosed in a framework" would be a good motto for GR.

"The bullfight is art, because it respects its own pattern..." : this
goes back to Gaddis's own remarks that "The Recognitions" was a
perfect title because it reflects the impossibility of escaping a
pattern.



On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wyatt is clearly into the ideal of pattern recognition:
>
> "That's what it is, this arrogance, in this flamenco music this same
> arrogance of suffering, listen. The strength of it's what's so
> overpowering, the self-sufficiency that's so delicate and tender
> without an instant of sentimentality. With infinite pity but refusing
> pity, it's a precision of suffering, the tremendous tension of
> violence all enclosed in a framework...in a pattern that doesn't
> pretend to any other level but its own. It's the privacy, the
> exquisite sense of privacy about it, it's the sense of privacy that
> most popular expressions of suffering don't have, don't dare have,
> that's what makes it arrogant. That's what sentimentalizing invades
> and corrupts, that's what we've lost everywhere, especially here where
> they make every possible assault on your feelings and privacy. These
> things have their own patterns, suffering and violence, and
> that's...the sense of violence within its own pattern, the pattern
> that belongs to violence like a bullfight, that's why the bullfight is
> art, because it respects its own pattern..." (p. 111f)
>
>



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