tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post5431971056369563724..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: Hope and oblivionStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-89757801496176038512009-12-31T12:24:41.117+00:002009-12-31T12:24:41.117+00:00"La rage de vouloir conclure est une des mani..."La rage de vouloir conclure est une des manies les plus funestes et les plus stériles qui appartiennent à l'humanité."<br /><br />That's Flaubert.graltesohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05770834108729719985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-68948170314206956432009-12-31T02:05:05.870+00:002009-12-31T02:05:05.870+00:00I like your take on this. Gumbrecht does seem to b...I like your take on this. Gumbrecht does seem to be missing what Borges is getting at... or rather, what he is deferring, prefering not to 'get at' by refusing the epiphanic--as viewed anywhere outside a dream. In messing up the neat puzzle-solving tendencies of our brain, solutions become ... solutions: the answers disolved. As we emerge from the artful dream state of reading we may just possibly see the neatly contrived borders of our recived visions of the 'real' quiver... merge--the way a child colors without regard to the lines--and so grant us what we have lost in this over-cooked reality: raw material once again plastic to the power of imagination, and so... the possibility of a future not absolutely governed by the actions of the past.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.com