Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 03:56:31 +0000 (UTC)
From: anonymous <tlewis-AT-sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: Tony Smith's car ride


Your description of Tony Smith's car ride reminded me of the following
quote from Alain Robbe-Grillet:

"Now the world is neither meaningful nor absurd. It simply is...
In place of this universe of "meanings" (psychological, social,
functional), one should try to construct a more solid, more
immediate world. So that first of all it will be through their presence
that objects and gestures will impose themselves, and so this presence
continues thereafter to dominate, beyond any theory of explication that
might attempt to enclose them in any sort of a sentimental, sociological,
Freudian, metaphysical or any other system of reference."
Alain Robbe-Grillet, "Une voie pour le roman futur", Pour un nouveau
roman, 1956.