Malcolm Phillips
The sequence might be from nomadism through various forms of settlement - disrupted by pilgrimage, restless wandering, etc (Frost and Snow, Falling has more on this: the Papal emissaries en route to Mongolia, Gregory's opposition of direction of the spirit to false pilgrimage of place, the grotesque, weird remark about the "illiterate scrounger" who is our only rival) - to some future that is barely articulated here and there, spatially, as a state we have to yank ourselves into somehow that can become the holy city, barely understood as a city at all. The street is a void because we're stuck in it, arrested mid-sequence: hence the strange contradictions at the close, a distant resort keeping a man more or less in his place. Ages since I looked at that book though.
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Bobby Bisto
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wow! your my hero! thats so good!
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Bobby Bisto
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tell me more about the "illiterate scrounger" if you can
Bobby Bisto
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so the street is our 'condition'? its not the actual street? the wet asphalt, the trudging? its where we are?
Bobby Bisto
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for the sake of conversation and honesty i will let you into how thick i am i was thinking of a)the conveyor belt which transports you from one life-theatre to the next, an in-between experiences and b) void in that it is literally an emptiness that by being free of impediment offers frictionless transitbeing free of impediment offers frictionless transit
Bobby Bisto
i was thinking, inadequately, of sequence of man, on an individual level, moving from theatre to theatre, acting, in those discrete locations, under their own contingent rules, and the street joining them together
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