ENGL 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geek Love, Confidence Trick, Rosy Cross
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Humor comes from awkward-ness, irony (not what it"s supposed to be/mean) Idea that people with disabilities are like babies. Leading cause of death in the military is suicide. Fevvers: vibrant, physical presence, not proper, raised by whores. Women at this time (late 19th century: 2nd class citizens (no vote, property, patriarchal, traits: quiet, obedient, timid, submissive, big dresses modest, sex is for reproduction. Living in clown alley: buffo the great - the clown of clowns / old man. Seven feet high and broad, yellow gravestone teeth. L objects - clumsy: little ivan. An absence. a vacancy 122: faces exist of themselves - waiting for a clown to adopt that persona through makeup. Walser loses identity as a journalist and assumes the identity of a clown - but clown has questionable identity (makeup reference) Body huge but inside he is weak. Object (done to) -> thing, subject (does) -> person. Beauty and the beast - tiger is the beauty.
