12. Cent Mille Milliards De Poémes - 10 pages, with 10 lines, cut and seperated - can be combined back and forth to make 200 million years of continuous reading - here again, the weight of possibilities implied
Like a shape seen in the distance, sketchiness has the power to suggest multiple realities at once. Monet’s dark-gray squiggle in the Le Havre water might be a rock or a boat; certainly it is a squiggle of paint. Emphasizing the physicality of the image—the gloppiness of the paint, the visible canvas below—calls attention to the instability of the illusion.
Opacity refers not to an essential feature of any kind of literary work, but to a manner of reading literature characterized by an interest in the way its form, style, language, plot, and other
literary devices function in the service of conveying its contents: how “textual nuances, implicit evaluations, narrator reliability, symbolic resonance, humour, irony, tone, allusions or figurative meanings in the textual content” give precise shape to the thoughts the content elicits - lemarque 2014
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles (1969) provides mutually inconsistent endings and the narrator appears as a character who flips a coin to choose among them
12. Cent Mille Milliards De Poémes - 10 pages, with 10 lines, cut and seperated - can be combined back and forth to make 200 million years of continuous reading - here again, the weight of possibilities implied
Like a shape seen in the distance, sketchiness has the power to suggest multiple realities at once. Monet’s dark-gray squiggle in the Le Havre water might be a rock or a boat; certainly it is a squiggle of paint. Emphasizing the physicality of the image—the gloppiness of the paint, the visible canvas below—calls attention to the instability of the illusion.
Opacity refers not to an essential feature of any kind of literary work, but to a manner of reading literature characterized by an interest in the way its form, style, language, plot, and other
literary devices function in the service of conveying its contents: how “textual nuances, implicit evaluations, narrator reliability, symbolic resonance, humour, irony, tone, allusions or figurative meanings in the textual content” give precise shape to the thoughts the content elicits - lemarque 2014
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles (1969) provides mutually inconsistent endings and the narrator appears as a character who flips a coin to choose among them