CoL49 Group Read 2024

[J K Van Nort]

If you take the scene on pg. 132-134 (Harper Perennial) where Oed attends the funeral and then returns with Bortz, Grace and the graduate students to drink Muscatel in the night, there are several examples of David's "What is Reality?" question. The fresh grave, the cold, hard ground mix with her attempts to conjure even a "coded tenacity of protein" of what is left of Driblette to rise out of the grave and answer her question about why he added the lines in the performance she attended. She cries his name through the brain's circuitry, only to end with the same conundrum: was she not capable or did he not exist?

In solidarity,
James

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