V Epilogue - waterspout?

[Henry M]

I've always loved the postmodern game here of breaking the frame by
directing the reader to observe the authorial creation, in this case of an
rare and unobserved event, the waterspout, and its erasure from
visibility/view/review.  There should be a term for some part of
this, something with fiat in it.  If I remember correctly, Vonnegut, in
Breakfast of Champions, uses his authorial voice to cause the chain of an
angry tethered dog to snap.

AsB4,
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Henry Mu
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Dennis Keohane <den.b.keohane at gmail.com>wrote:

> "Draw a line from Malta to Lampedusa.  Call it a radius. Somewhere in that
> circle on the evening of the tenth, a water spout appeared and lasted
> fifteen minutes..." pg. 456
>
> pg. 355 They are possessed. Or: the same forces which dictate the bomb's
> trajectory, the deaths of stars, the wind and the waterspout have focused
> somewhere inside the pelvic frontiers without their consent, to generate one
> more mighty accident."
>
> Waterspout and wind: natural phenomena, uncontrollable.  sublime?
> Yet the bombs trajectory also falls into this grouping of mighty accidents
> as if, as an all encompassing theme, some acts of technology follow the laws
> of nature.
>
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