English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jacques Lacan, Litotes, Double Negative

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: David Bentley

Document Summary

Understand it as an allegory of reading/interpretation. Our narrator goes through stages of trying to make sense of the enigma that is. The story about the process of trying to understand an experience. The narrator"s recognition of not being able to make sense of this. Bartle by is a repressed thought, coming back to make narrator"s life miserable. Our narrator is trying to figure out how to. He is perhaps unwilling to tell us this full story. If i pleased showing power he is not telling us. The dead letter story is a rumor . Meaningless language; don"t be seduced by this rumor. Narrator is to be trusted in his lies. Narrator shows much arrogance in this paragraph. Asserting that he could tell the full story of a life. Suggesting that the story that is to come is a failure because he cannot explain, nor do what he wants to do.