V---2nd, Chap 16

[Michael Bailey]

hmm, the absence of much of the Benny story, the presence of a
crisis...the focus-shift - the continuation of themes through
different characters - section i is like a Stencil chapter: the
presence of imperialist interlopers and their attempts to find some
kind of comfort in the strange environs; their reversion to
drunkenness; their attempts at thoughtfulness recorded, but more
vernacularly than previous Stencilizations...too close to the subject
to invest it with elevated language, for the most part, still it is
more of a Stencilian panorama, capital H history rearing its snakelike
head, too close for comfort, too sudden for the point of view to
settle upon elevated protagonists but instead settling for Profane's
old shipmates, the roving flying eyeball picking out choice scenes

- and then in ii and iii a compression of action to pick up and more
or less conclude the action proper with a few choice soliloquies and a
poem...
I won't say it's my favorite chapter (that would probably be 8, o-or
maybe the epilogue), but it has its charms nonetheless...
especially because the past has the last word, in the epilogue, it is
just very meet and fitting that it be thus!




On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I, with Laura, have and still don't like most of this chapter.
> I don't get what all the sailor partying is about here.....seems
> very overdone.
>
> maybe it was written as a story to get pubbed and wasn't. It does remind me
> (a little) of Entropy, that hothouse party story..... \
>
> Which maybe came together for TRP when he found the inside the house
> vs.-outside-the house
>  and entropy metaphor.?
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