English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lethal Consequences
9 Mar 2016
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A story about suicide, mortification, being witnessed while mortifying one"s self public suicide. Publishing your life for others to witness. Story taps into some desire in the human to be witnessed. A story about an artist; a story about creativity. How does starving to death publicly count as a kind of creative act. Parable; it is calmly associated with christian stories, parables. Parables are not always easy to comprehend. Short ways of communicating and comprehending complex ideas. There seems to be at times a secret, apparent to some people and not to others. This story is a parable in this sense: Has a point, but that point is not obvious. A parable with a secret because it allows itself to be read in more than one way. The hunger artist as a religious figure that"s offering himself as a sacrifice. Only one of the options of how it can be read.
