Oct. 26
Seth:
-specific strips at key moments
-examination of strip used on midterm
is this Seth at the time of the skating or Seth in retrospect of the occasion?
existentialism > finding some sort of direction or purpose in life
angst / joy > struggle
response to continuous situations with a plethora of choices
-woodstock and snoopy and relation of reading
-woodstock slashes in comparison to snoopy with characters in relation to the reader
bad faith
-putting a sense accomplishment in something that can't exist
-the never get to situation (peanuts)
-a guarantee in failure (goal oriented living is a doomed existence)
interest in the everyday
-exploring the everyday
slapstick / body humour
-the fall in the skating strip (schadenfrende > not you)
(jackass > obvious stupidity)
-abuse or mortify the body
-low humour = satanic
the ongoing issue of laughter. linked with evil, cruelty.
the universe taking back control from the illusion of reality
> fragility of sense. life
window display and dinosaur display > pity and interest
"bad" art
aspires to, but fails
Seth and Ruthie and the dissolution of the relationship
theodore sturgeon > beating to maintain the relationship of fragility
layers of pretense upon layers of pretense
understanding in relation to others
-projection
-othering (defining difference)
-seeing the world as an expression of internal feelings
pg 44-45
finding an understanding of self through an analysis of those around
1st person PoV > doubleness of internal/external > bidirectional
back and forth with connection and dissociation
identity via relation to others
romantic individualism
flâneur
wander
separate
judge
-the child that Seth observes and is told to stop
the world is more than a personal fantasy and projection
page 19 bottom right corner two pages and again same place and again two pages later
-relating through people who are silent
"I'm special and an individual"
"I'm exactly like everybody"
Stephen - Seth's brother (kind of happy/content)
-laid back
-childish.child like
-sloppy /lazy.relaxed
-stupid jokes
-annoys Seth
too like himself, too similar
-prison/cage/box
Seth's climbing into a box memory
cardboard box / related to mother's place
-trains = temporary suburb in motion
cells/frames of comics
-routine / predictability
-greenhouse
finding and paying attention to patterns in the narrative
the start of section three
-pages without text
slowing down and looking at the reason why this section of the story is important
dinosaurs
-old
-collected
-fascinating > children
-artificial > salvage > recovery
1970s movement of recovering women's literature
reinvigorate and return to promise women's literature
-"Diving into the Wreck"
-a poem that is a conceit
-constant return; pastness
-nostalgic
projection to flesh the beasts
guesswork to assembly
-fragility and obvious artifice
something that creates verisimilitude (the creation of reality in a simulation)
Boris and the steps of health in relationship to the narrative
the anchor of monumental buildings
eroded history with the intention to monumentalize
Seth is a champion of seeking to remember was is to be forgotten
enthusiasm for decay in architecture
The casualty of Seth (talk about next week)
