tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post600251495246295941..comments2023-05-27T04:26:16.242-07:00Comments on Dreaming Without Memory in Strangled Sleep: "How Much of the Earth is Flesh?"Monicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-82209647230822742322009-08-02T15:16:41.235-07:002009-08-02T15:16:41.235-07:00Ira...I'm thinking through your comments. Will...Ira...I'm thinking through your comments. Will be back soon...Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-74480195094181632272009-07-27T01:48:12.579-07:002009-07-27T01:48:12.579-07:00Kevin--good point. But...that's just it--I don...Kevin--good point. But...that's just it--I don't think that Lot's wife failed! I choose to read that moment as one of self-sacrifice. Or perhaps it was inevitable--the only possible ethical act that a mother could make, the choice she could not BUT choose. I see her as looking back because she could not turn her back on her two daughters, left to burn in the city. Perhaps she is not Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-27704866916142932842009-07-20T17:31:39.934-07:002009-07-20T17:31:39.934-07:00Great post. Just wanted to mention: I've been...Great post. Just wanted to mention: I've been thinking for a little while about how the first sincere (authentic, goodwilled, etc.--who decides which word or which act counts as one of the words, but still, we live through them) imitation can often be the opposite of diluted. That is, if the original is not only a representation of some kind, but equally and equally importantly a Ira J.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06492972289040032645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-40692701411697954372009-07-11T15:35:40.931-07:002009-07-11T15:35:40.931-07:00Very nice connections here, re: replicas and absen...Very nice connections here, re: replicas and absence. Surely this is, in general, a danger. But I wonder if this absence you worry about--the tendency of a replica to make absent that of which it purports to be a reminder--is not counter-acted by the example you use at the end.<br /><br />Under the presumption that the ideal replica/memorial etc. does its work by preventing (so far as it can) theKevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18308961591392181541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-17186204493739904262009-07-07T14:45:50.108-07:002009-07-07T14:45:50.108-07:00Hypotyposis--Good point. But...while I don't w...Hypotyposis--Good point. But...while I don't want to "dismiss" the possibility that for the copyist "the imitating act is a way of getting closer to...the original," I do want to question it. I want to question whether these impulses to get closer to the event/etc really do get us closer. My theory is that when the impulse is purely representational, the consequence is oneMonicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924031206519469554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-22200808359861534472009-07-07T04:30:53.327-07:002009-07-07T04:30:53.327-07:00Interesting in light of the possibility of "r...Interesting in light of the possibility of "rebuilding the temple."<br /><br />But, isn't even an original a sort of simulation? When I read about the original temple in Jerusalem, for example, I get the feeling that it was to be a kind of physical manifestation of the place of prayer (which is obviously "inward" somehow)... I wonder if that simulation might already have Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820693522030084335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26622588.post-23613006152496115612009-07-06T23:21:33.720-07:002009-07-06T23:21:33.720-07:00Quick comment on this vast subject: I think you ne...Quick comment on this vast subject: I think you need a distinction between the "buyer" of replicas (fétiches, idoles, etc.) and the creator of copies–not sure you can dismiss so fast the idea that for (some) copyists, the imitating act is a way of getting closer to/interpreting/remembering the original. E.g. in a similar direction Proust on writing in the styles of authors you've Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07304947852426451796noreply@blogger.com