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HOUSE WITH THE BLUE BED BY ALFRED ARTEADA. GROUP LEAD DISCUSSION. FEAR. “While a gunshot, cut, or rape happens with brilliant intensity, it is bounded by its absence?” (pg. 61) What does it means to be bounded by its absence?
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HOUSE WITH THE BLUE BEDBY ALFRED ARTEADA GROUP LEAD DISCUSSION
FEAR • “While a gunshot, cut, or rape happens with brilliant intensity, it is bounded by its absence?” (pg. 61) • What does it means to be bounded by its absence? • “And I am touched by that emotion elements of color, moisture, fabric, and present but unintelligible object of emotion.”(pg. 63) • What is the unintelligible object of emotion?
FEAR • Fear is there because we never feel or be in the situation, the unknown • We cannot see , touch , or smell emotion. It is there ,but hidden.
BEING • “I think that the world must make sense for them as an ontology of sequence, that one becomes in order.” (pg. 66) • What does he mean? • “I went outside and caught flakes in my hands my hair and life for the first time. (pg. 67) • What is his feeling about catching the flakes?
BEING • Ontology- “The philosophical study of nature of being.” • Need to understand what the world really is. • It is different between really touching the flakes than reading about it.
RACE • “But for all its variation, the road course is a single surface, turning, rising, falling but never leaving the track plane.”(pg. 70) • Why did he mention this?
RACE • He think that no matter what happen, an object will never leave the main track, or it is always the same. • There is another metaphor on last sentence of race. (pg. 73)
AUTO BODY • What does his references to lines, the desert and the race track have to do with everything? (pg. 76) • What does last sentence of auto body mean? (pg. 80)
AUTO BODY • Courses are just like what we will encounter in life • Driving could be related to life, driving in circle could be apliy to life too.
MAZE • What does he feel about having a translator? (pg. 81) • What does he mean by the last sentence of maze, “And what it is that so strikes me is the fact of desire.” (pg. 83)
MAZE • Translator shows that people struggles to understand and be understand. • People’s desire toward certain subject is strong that he can feel their emotion.