BLEEDING EDGE

[Mark Kohut]

I wrote the first two lines below a short bit ago and someone asked me
offline what I meant--
I responded as you can see below. Comments?


"BE: a a sad, poignant, reaction one might have about characters and their
embodied themes in it:      Even Maxine. "

A: Aphoristic feeling as I reread...not sure I could make the case but
basically, she and Horst; she and all her satirized friends; she and her
self-compromises to
just get anywhere in understanding. That conversation in a toilet stall
(and we know toilets in TRP)

Her move to whatever understanding she gets to is like Oedipa going
backwards to get there not straight forward like Oedipa.

Maybe foretold in the beginning when she explains how she is now unlicensed
--and that is maybe a plus in NYC...
City,the nation, America is so corrupt only the compromised can plumb it.



On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:18 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> what do you mean? sth got lost?
>
> Am Sa., 1. Dez. 2018 um 19:36 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> >:
>
>> a sad, poignant, reaction one might have about characters and their
>> embodied themes in it:
>>
>> Even Maxine.
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