ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Treadle, Obasan, Easter Island
17 Apr 2016
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Absences are interpretable meaning can be derived from silences. Read for what"s not represented (or in capable of being represented!) Pay atenion to moments of repression, disassociaion or absence/silence. Accumulated records/documents/arifacts or their physical place or storage. Think about the objects that trigger the surfacing of, or grant access to, suppressed or repressed memories. There are some indescribable items in the dark recesses of the fridge that never see the light of day. But you realize when you open the door that they"re there, lurking, too old for mould and past putrefacion (64) I put my lufy easter chicks in there as well, their feet three wire prongs. Last easter i found them in a wicker basket siing on top of candy and chocolate eggs there is a scene i imagine, in which i am my mother come home and am siing at the treadle machine.
