ENG 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Don Delillo, The Body Artist, Kotka
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The body artist by don delillo (pages 45-90) Real things are an anchor for her simple observations anchor her: she burned her hand on the skillet and went right to the fridge and there was no ice in the fucking. It sounded through the house, all the handsets jingling in their cradles. Limitations of language: in the first days back she ate a clam from hell and spent a number of subsequent hours scuttling to the toilet. But at least she had her body back. There"s nothing like a raging crap to make mind and body one (37: there were just too many things to understand and finally just one (37) Even before discovering mr. tuttle, lauren needs to understand what to do next in her life: her identity, her future both are completely different now, her perception is different.
