NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

[Perry Noid]

Been curious about Vollman for a bit

On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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:;>> 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
> <javascript:;>>
> >>> 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
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes, page 247.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> >>>>> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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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