NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

[Mark Kohut]

Now you have Vollman to read. A MAJOR subject, as we know.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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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