BEg2 ch 15 something reminding of something

[Mark Kohut]

So lovely, Michael.

Yes.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 3:16 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not in service of interpretation or message but just to appreciate a nice
> linkage -
>
> “ This little island reminds her of something, and it takes her a minute to
> see what.
>             As if you could reach into the looming and prophetic landfill,
> that perfect negative
>             of the city in its seething foul incoherence, and find a set of
> invisible links to
>             click on and be crossfaded at last to unexpected refuge, a
> piece of the ancient estuary
>             exempt from what happened, what has gone on happening, to the
> rest of it.”
>
> This - oh! it’s like Walter Benjamin’s angel, isn’t it?
>
>  I was going to say moments like this crop up in the oeuvre from time to
> time and I always enjoy them, like the Spanish explorers in IV, or, like,
> all of AtD, the historical feel & the linkage of the wreckage we might see
> with the actions of real people we can somewhat sympathize with acting upon
> the landscape of their time as we are acting upon the landscape of ours…and
> the relation of that to the computer game where the same feeling of
> exploration comes into play…and the economic forces divvying or trivvying
> that up into trash, profit, and inspiration (shit, money, and the word?)
>
> But also - my real point - especially in an older city, there are some real
> cool spots if you look around & so forth (deep, eh?)
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