March 21, 2009

• Annals of Rhetoric:

  Interpreter's Booth
  
  Tonight's online New York Times:

  
  
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  Mary Karr,
  "Facing Altars:
      Poetry and Prayer"--

  "There is a body
  on the cross
    in my church."
  
  
  
  Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman
  in "The Interpreter."
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  "My card."

  "Is Heart of Darkness the story of Kurtz or the story of Marlow’s experience of Kurtz?  Was Marlow invented as a rhetorical device for heightening the meaning of Kurtz’s moral collapse, or was Kurtz invented in order to provide Marlow with the centre of his experience in the Congo?  Again a seamless web, and we tell ourselves that the old-fashioned question 'Who is the protagonist?' is a meaningless one."

  -- Wayne C. Booth, p. 346 in
  The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961),
  as quoted by Paul Wake in
  "The Storyteller in Chance"

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