tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post7116978645586788290..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: I Am This Dream's DogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-87907550188590567772011-11-28T15:28:11.715-05:002011-11-28T15:28:11.715-05:00Let me let Druff respond:
"I tell you, Miss ...Let me let Druff respond:<br /><br />"I tell you, Miss Glorio, there are drifts and tendencies and pronenesses. There's kinks and fixations, bent and bias. There's yens and itches. And if the lion ever does lie down with the lamb, or the goat with the otter, it's dollars to doughnuts they're dreaming of Jeannie with the light brown hair, too. Because love has to be exonerated, the extenuating circumstances taken into account, the forgives and forgets."<br /><br />"I love it when you talk gabardine. It fetches, me, it really does. It's a shame you can't fuck," Meg Glorio told him.<br /><br />"There you go again," said Druff.<br /><br />-----<br /><br />Well, that's cheating, yes? As for the thesis, I haven't looked at it in ten years and surely would disagree with what I wasn't embarrassed by.<br /><br />As for macguffins, serendipity yes, and I can't help reading anything serendipitous in late Elkin in light of his health in general and MS in particular. What good did reading signs do Eddy Bale's children?<br /><br />But yes, Druff is one of the most bluntly and forwardly propelled characters I've ever met (though I confess, MacGuffin wasn't one of my favorites, though it by no means sucks).<br /><br />Which doesn't answer your questions, probably, I'm afraid.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-25397804499213150662011-11-28T14:55:00.792-05:002011-11-28T14:55:00.792-05:00Do eyes scratch?
BDR,
I read Elkin as defining a ...Do eyes scratch?<br /><br />BDR,<br />I read Elkin as defining a macguffin as an important neurological event (like a dream) (and not just for writers), a narrative and rhetorical mechanism by which we devise and persuade ourselves to enact our own hoping and daring. But did or didn’t you find it unusual that he so favors experience—chance meetings, coincidence, serendipity, how experience is ordered, what comes first, second, next, never—but Druff reads little or not at all? In the whole novel I can only remember Druff reading the taxi “driver’s” name, though he often enough refers to his office's blue brochures. Did you address that in your thesis, by any chance? Or what do you make of it now? Leaving out words for the most part seems an important and deliberate omission. Why not use written words as markers or propellents inside the macguffin? It seems so, well, unwriterly to make such a careful distinction between experience and reading. Wherefore?Frances Madesonhttp://www.carolmrp.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-34649091567042316802011-11-28T13:32:29.008-05:002011-11-28T13:32:29.008-05:00Of course. I couldn't quite remember for sure,...Of course. I couldn't quite remember for sure, but I have to admit that hers was the only name that came to mind!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-87346697704970447042011-11-28T12:56:57.703-05:002011-11-28T12:56:57.703-05:00Ubu, GbV, and ____?Ubu, GbV, and ____?Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-54610247158945623292011-11-28T10:11:24.676-05:002011-11-28T10:11:24.676-05:00You'll have to wait in line all night too, R.G...You'll have to wait in line all night too, R.G.<br /><br />Bring your pepper spray.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-81596212192103424672011-11-28T09:29:35.044-05:002011-11-28T09:29:35.044-05:00If nothing else, it will eventually be a Robert Po...If nothing else, it will eventually be a Robert Pollard song.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-79606364034339222652011-11-28T09:26:26.820-05:002011-11-28T09:26:26.820-05:00Kleptocracy and You should be a t-shirt. I'd p...Kleptocracy and You should be a t-shirt. I'd pay five bucks for one, so I guess I have to wait until next Black Friday for it to be marked down.Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.com