June 19, 2007

• Timing, Part II:

  Let Noon Be Fair

  
  -- Title of a novel
  by Willard Motley

  A review of Helene Cixous's Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing:

  "Cixous explores three distinct 'schools' that produce what she
  envisions as great writing-- the Schools of the Dead, of Dreams, and of
  Roots. Cixous invests much weight in the purposefully ambiguous nature
  of the word 'school'; she seems to refer to a motivation, conscious or
  unconscious, that directs, influences, and shapes writing; at other
  times she seems to want to speak of actual places from whence we get
  instruction (again, consciously or unconsciously)."

  
  

  From Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Chapter I:

  Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall --

  
  "Shaken, M. Laruelle replaced the book on the table... he reached to the
  floor for a folded sheet of paper that had fluttered out of it. He
  picked the paper up between two fingers and unfolded it, turning it
  over. Hotel Bella Vista, he read."

  From The Shining, Chapter 18:
   
  "In 1961 four writers, two of them Pulitzer Prize winners, had leased
  the Overlook and reopened it as a writers' school. That had lasted one
  year.... Every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go.... (In the room the women come and go)" --Quoted in Shining Forth
  

  
  

  Photo: jewishbookweek.com

  Jacques Derrida and Helene Cixous

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  Noon.

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