NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

[Perry Noid]

I am nearing the end of another book on violence, not nearly as epic or
beautiful as BM but another perspective, psychological and discrete. I have
read Ballardian landscapes described as "quantal" and I think it is perfect
description.

I think I am organically crafting some imaginary course on violence in my
head. Started with the Spanish film Tesis by Ameñabar, Baader-Meinhoff by
Delillo (it's a short story in the New Yorker, not necessarily violent but
terrorism and trauma) then Blood Meridian and now High Rise by Ballard.

On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> OMG that is so obvious! And the whole time reading it I am constructing
> wild theories as to why the man is hairless. Represents his supernatural
> otherworldliness, a skin suited for a different terrain, Yada yada yada
> can't believe I didn't consider the freaking whale itself.
>
> I'm going to have to buy a copy because there is a lot I want to go back
> to. Got mine from the library
>
> And Mark that home alone bit is hilarious. Spot on.
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure it is no accident the Moby Dick is so evoked by BM.  The Judge
>> is the whale.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Moby Dick was at the front of my mind throughout. Instead of man hunting
>>> a whale, and everything that represents, man is hunting man. I'm sure u all
>>> have dissected this one like an injun scalp but since I haven't really
>>> discussed it with anyone I'll say this in passing to get it out. I think
>>> the lack of sex scenes was certainly indicative of something because we
>>> know sex occurs in the book. And I would like to know what anyone thinks of
>>> the idiot, his cage and his chain to the judge and why the judge rescues
>>> him. One of the rare appearances of the fairer sex is when he is liberated
>>> from his cage. And just a random thought: when reading the passage where
>>> the judge is walking around with the idiot on the chain my mind seemed to
>>> conjur Dracula and Renfield. Was wondering what you smarter folk took from
>>> that whole interaction.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, page 247.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just finished reading that for the first time last week. Had read
>>>>> the Road and No Country, was underwhelmed, and was not expecting to
>>>>> be wowed like I was with Blood Meridian. I was expecting it to be another
>>>>> over praised novel that did not meet expectations but it far exceeded mine.
>>>>>
>>>>> That *is* Blood Meridian right?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ...They rode on. The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the
>>>>>> round earth rolled beneath them silently milling the greater void wherein
>>>>>> they were contained. In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena
>>>>>> were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone
>>>>>> nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of
>>>>>> these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole
>>>>>> on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and
>>>>>> nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all
>>>>>> preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with
>>>>>> unguessed kinship.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm sure some of you will recognize this...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>
>>>>
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