An autonomous internal appetite that strains toward its own self-annihilating fulfilment — an early working of the…
echoes
From: Order and Flux in Northampton
- Early text: Dingle's love is a "small homunculoid presence inside
Barry Dingle, a doll-sized self all its own" that "wants in some ultimate sense
to be Barry Dingle"; being "a human love," it is possessed of a self-defeating
drive — "Dingle's immoderate love's life strains ever forward toward the death
that love's life loves." [c17-dfw1/dfw2]
- IJ echo: The novel's figuration of appetite as an autonomous, host-consuming
agent — Kate Gompert's "It," which "billows on and coagulates around and wraps
in Its black folds and absorbs into Itself" the self it inhabits (scene 135,
pp. 692-698); and the addiction/"Disease" discourse of the recovery thread
(White Flag / Ennet House, scene 074, pp. 343-367).
- Weight: prefiguration