Re: An experiment in automatic writing
Lee Hollingworth (lee@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au)
Sun, 14 May 95 9:46:29 EST
> > In fact, when I look at my own essay, I realize that my fear of it
> > falling apart is primarily borne of the rapid succession of images and
> > symbols that are developed. Very few of them are repeated or
> > developed further, so I fear that we may be left with the afterburn of
> > a rapid slide show. Repetition and linkage are necessary to produce
> > _pattern_, which in turn is what is needed for a viewer to produce
> > narrative.
>
> I'm not sure that the analogy is a slide show? I understood it be
> be a landscape of adventure. More or less a path that could be
> traveled if one so desires?
>
> But if the path travelled is a narrative, it has a beginning, a
> middle, and an end. It has a coherent story. If it doesn't tell a
> story, then it is merely a sightseeing tour about unrelated events.
> And then one could just view the vacation snaps in any particular
> order.
If I am making my _own_ narrative, then I should be able to view
the slides in any order I like? If I have never been to the places
you visited on your sightseeing tour, it may in fact make more "sense"
to me to view them out of order...
Then again, maybe that is just my personal preference of being left
alone to make my own interpretation about the series of events..., and
may help explain why I like surrealism :-)
Lee.