The Frame Function by Jan Cronin

Author:Jan Cronin [Cronin, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

longing grew in me to go above ground […] I might just as well have stayed beneath the earth, for I found that all was dark here as down below and there was no immediate sensation or knowledge of daylight or sun […]. I touched something hard and round […]. My bones told me the sun appeared round. As my hand warmed against it it grew warmer and smoother. My bones told me the sun was warm. […] I retreated again […] to the underground place […]. Knowing they—the shadowy presences—would believe everything I told them, I explained that […] the daylight is a heaviness that will crush you to death, and nothingness. (IC, pp. 51–53)

This is a nightmare version, not simply of Plato’s cave, but more specifically of Socrates’ paradigm in Plato’s Phaedo, a text we know, from a letter to Bill Brown, that Frame knew in depth:†

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