Wrecking the Recognitions...Chap 4 banana republic

[Mark Kohut]

Very nice....The Recognitions' Investigations....

the way Gaddis explores
CONCEPTS with scene after scene, conversation after conversation, allusion 
after allusion....



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 10:14:34 AM
Subject: Re: Wrecking the Recognitions...Chap 4 banana republic

cfabel wrote:
> Perhaps, like Philosophical Investigations, Recognitions is composed of
> fragments, notions, scraps experienced, ironically, as an entirely
> meaningful whole? Ironic as, taken altogether, it denies the notion of
> completeness? Scraps and notions filling in the interstices between self and
> others, self and movements (fascist moments of Catholicism), self and
> institutions (capitalism); one notion being that the interstices are the
> local of novelty, originality, creation, agorai where the personal and the
> shared are removed from their opposition (recognized)?
>

ooh, that's nice!