File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-12-23.023, message 73


Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 01:27:06 +0200 (EET)
From: "J. Lehmus" <jlehmus-AT-cute.fi>
Subject: Re: enclosed space in literature


On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, David Erben (Art) wrote:

>
>I'd be grateful if members of the list could backchannel me suggestions
>for works of fiction that depict tunnels, caverns, and any other enclosed
>spaces. 

read "The Valley" in W.S. Burroughs's "The Western Lands"

physical entrapment as a metaphor for the "human addiction to the
flesh", and language, continued from "Cities of the Red Night" and
"Place of the Dead Roads". (The latter also includes a version of
the _enclosed space_ theme, towards the end of the book. ... ) 


J. Lehmus

http://www.geocities.com/paris/1583
http://www.thing.net/~grist



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