Fwd: Re: Matrix

["J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com>]

--- "J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 11:47:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com>
> Subject: Re: Matrix
> To: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
> 
> hello. :)
> 
> don said: 
> >Hey, I've *read* that book.  It's completely
> >impenetrable prose for the most
> >part (if you thought the Architect's speech was
> hard
> >to follow, forget about
> >Baudrillard)
> 
> our buddy baud is hard...definitly.  as for the
> architect's speech...i went last night for a second
> run and understood mostly.  the first night, i
> wanted
> to scream "where's the rewind button!?"  but second
> time it sinks in more.  now, if you hate math, maybe
> forget about it.
> 
> i think it's interesting to juxtapose the
> conversation
> b/w the counselor and neo and then the one b/w the
> architect and neo.
> 
> still pondering the relationship b/c smith and
> neo...very interesting given the last scenes.
> 
> >it's in the Matrix, so it's a simulation of a
> >simulation of a book about
> >simulation. 
> 
> the epistimology is almost as bad as the free
> will/fate thing!  but this time...the aspect of
> purpose.  that's rolling around in my brain.  is it
> an
> added complexity or a redefinition of sorts?!
> 
> -j. marie
> 
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> transcend its primary condition and become something
> higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the
> emotional and spiritual conditions of the world.
> Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings,
> yearnings become actions."
> - Ben Okri, "Beyond Words", A Way of Being Free
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Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions."
- Ben Okri, "Beyond Words", A Way of Being Free

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