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quote: Someone, maybe you?, suggested that he was purposefully self-referecning his own existence as author in the text.
But declaratively or simply as a writing process? See the difference? One crosses the 4th wall (I think it's called). The other is just standard authorial solipsism: you really ARE the complete God of a novel (unless it's ghostwritten by literary demiurges).
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quote: Originally posted by Psychophant:
Actually he said he got "The Pursuit of the Millenium" when the book was under way, although milleniarism was already an interest of his (which is why a friend passed him the book). He only discovered after the book was published that Cohn's book was one of Guy Debord's favourites.
All according to him, but doubting an author's declarations about his own work is too post-modern for me.
Oh, right, I forgot it was well liked by Guy Debord. Gustave, are you saying thatGibson created Big's mama as a Situationist because of the book? Because I think Psychophant is right with the timeline he presented as I recall. |
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quote: Originally posted by UberDog:
Oh, right, I forgot it was well liked by Guy Debord.
Gustave, are you saying thatGibson created Big's mama as a Situationist because of the book?
Because I think Psychophant is right with the timeline he presented as I recall.
Most likely the exact opposite - I suppose he was thrilled to come across it, and if he indeed had already drawn the Situationist thread, the arrival of the book was a coincidence too delightful to keep to himself. Perhaps Milgrim is merely a vehicle for the book meme.
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Milgrim is product placement for Heironymous Bosch.
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quote: Originally posted by Gustave:
I suppose he acts as a foil to Brown. But generally: book + function = projectile. ;-)
If he is a bullet drawn at the reader he is one diffused behind layers of practiced and chemically buffered apathy. |
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