[Vwoolf] A blast from the past from Google Alerts

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

The infinite has a ceiling?


Jeremy H



On 23.11.2018 00:30, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> Surely this man can’t really find Lee’s biography difficult.  He must 
> lead a sheltered life.  He could try practising to understand 
> ‘difficult’, say, with this:
> The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been 
> ostensibly set adrift from meaning,
> endeavours to trace the “infinitely mysterious” nature of a 
> perspective that has
> as yet not come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now 
> allows for perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a
> “spatial mapping” as Jameson has t
> ermed it, but which is here concerned with the
> ‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability
> to leave or avoid her inherited
> weltanschauung
> can, as we shall see, only lead to momentary solipsistic touches of 
> the ceiling of the infinite.
> The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been 
> ostensibly set adrift from meaning,
> endeavours to trace the “infinitely mysterious” nature of a 
> perspective that has
> as yet not come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now 
> allows for perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a
> “spatial mapping” as Jameson has t
> ermed it, but which is here concerned with the
> ‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability
> to leave or avoid her inherited
> weltanschauung
> can, as we shall see, only lead to momentary solipsistic touches of 
> the ceiling of the infinite.
>
> The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been 
> ostensibly set adrift from meaning, endeavours to trace the 
> “infinitely mysterious” nature of a perspective that has as yet not 
> come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now allows for 
> perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a “spatial mapping” as 
> Jameson has termed it, but which is here concerned with the
>
> ‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability to leave 
> or avoid her inherited weltanschauung can, as we shall see, only lead 
> to momentary solipsistic touches of the ceiling of the infinite.
>
> The narrative, from this moment when the ship-object has been 
> ostensibly set adrift from meaning,
> endeavours to trace the “infinitely mysterious” nature of a 
> perspective that has
> as yet not come to attain any stable point of view. Rachel Vinrace now 
> allows for perspectivization to enter into a radical mode; a
> “spatial mapping” as Jameson has t
> ermed it, but which is here concerned with the
> ‘vastness’ of the possibility of being. Yet, Rachel’s ability
> to leave or avoid her inherited
> weltanschauung
> can, as we shall see, only lead to momentary solipsistic touches of 
> the ceiling of the infinite.
> And then Lee might seem crystal clear by comparison.
> Stuart
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