Re: BEg2 ch27 Horst’s “qualia”

[rich]

motels. reminds me of Delillo's take on same in Players. deep midwest is an
interesting term--lots of choices though I found people from the Midwest
disagree on which states qualify, a friend in Kansas for example
doesnt consider Ohio a midwestern state

rich

He wonders about the tendency of motels to turn things inward. They’re a
peculiar invention, powerfully abstract. They seem like the *idea* of
something, still waiting to be expressed fully in concrete form. Isn’t
there more, he wants to ask. What’s behind it all? It must be the
traveller, the motorist, the sojourner himself who provides the edible
flesh of this concept. Inwardness spiralling ever deeper. Rationality,
analysis, self-realization. He spends a moment imagining that this vast
system of nearly identical rooms, worldwide, has been established so that
people will have somewhere to be *afraid* on a regular basis

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 1:06 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “It was years into the marriage before Horst admitted to not being a
> domestic person—by then, to nobody’s big surprise. “My ideal living space
> is a not too ratty motel room in the deep Midwest, somewhere up in the
> badlands, about the time of the first snows.”
>             Horst’s head in fact is a single nationwide snowdrift of motel
> rooms in far windswept spaces that Maxine will never know how to find her
> way to, let alone inhabit. Each crystalline episode fallen into his night,
> once, unrepeatable. The aggregate a wintry blankness she can’t read.
>
>
> Sounds like DeepArcher insofar as each link can’t be followed more than
> once.
>
> Not conducive to conjugal bliss?
>
> Or, an enticing mystery that hasn’t yet yielded to her, to the point where
> the mystery has eclipsed the enticing and trying seems pointless?
>
> Or, there are some memories that want to remain private - information that
> doesn’t want to be free?
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