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Tag Archives: White Noise
Experimental Play and White Noise (and Baudrillard)
Last year I went to see an experimental play put on by the Pitt repertory theatre (unfortunately I can’t find the name of it anywhere). The first act was just a regularly acted drama, nothing special. The second act was … Continue reading
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Tagged Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra, Simulation, White Noise
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Death and Disaster Series Part 2
When going through White Noise I found myself drawn to many of the passages discussed earlier in this blog. However on page 218 during the car crash discussion, I was drawn to a passage slightly before the one discussed. The … Continue reading
capitalism and our better judgement
“I did what I had to do. I was remote. I was operating outside myself. It was a capitalist transaction.” Babette to Jack, pg. 194 White Noise This dialogue and the whole confession really struck me; I dog-eared it in … Continue reading
Family and misinformation
The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation. There must be something in family life that generates factual error. Overcloseness, the noise and heat of being. Perhaps something even deeper, like the need to survive” (81). I loved this … Continue reading
Babette has wild hair.
“Babette is tall and fairly ample; there is a girth and heft to her. Her hair is a fanatical blond mop, a particular tawny hue that used to be called dirty blond. If she were a petite woman, the hair … Continue reading
A reality of fear
After finishing White Noise, i really stop and thought about what this book was getting at. There are so much going on in the book, I found it easy to get distracted. First i thought back to the scene at … Continue reading
The Process of Fear
“It is a grizzly bear. Enormous, shiny brown, swaggering, dripping slime from its bared fangs. Jack, you have never seen a large animal in the wild. The sight of this grizzer is so electrifyingly strange that it gives you a … Continue reading
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Tagged "Loss of the Creature", Don DeLillo, Grand Canyon, Walker Percy, White Noise
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The Sound of Death
On page 306 of White Noise by Don DeLillo, Jack finally begins to hear “white noise”; “I heard a noise, faint, montonous, white.” Why is it only when he is about to attempt to kill a man does he begin … Continue reading
the final German lesson in White Noise
“I went to one last lesson. The walls and windows were obscured by accumulated objects, which seemed now to be edging toward the middle of the room. The bland-faced man before me closed his eyes and spoke, reciting useful tourist … Continue reading
Second Reality
After receiving the gun from his father-in-law, Jack decides to carry it to school. This passage, appearing on page 297, provides a very personal look into Jack as a character as he comes to feel something he has never before … Continue reading
