Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno

Author:Theodor W. Adorno
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI040000, Philosophy/Movements/Critical Theory, LIT006000, Literary Criticism/Semiotics & Theory
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

HAMM: Take me for a little turn. (Clov goes behind the chair and pushes it forward.) Not too fast! (Clov pushes chair.) Right round the world! (Clov pushes chair.) Hug the walls, then back to the center again. (Clov pushes chair.) I was right in the center, wasn’t I?(25)

The loss of a center which that parodies, because that center was already a lie, becomes the pitiful object of a nagging and impotent pedantry:

CLOV: We haven’t done the round.

HAMM: Back to my place. (Clov pushes chair back to center.) Is that my place?

CLOV: I’ll measure it.

HAMM: More or less! More or less!

CLOV (moving chair slightly): There!

HAMM: I’m more or less in the center?

CLOV: I’d say so.

HAMM: You’d say so! Put me right in the center!

CLOV: I’ll go and get the tape.

HAMM: Roughly! Roughly! (Clov moves chair slightly.) Bang in the center! (26–27)

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