The cruise as paid consciousness-obliteration and the amnion of pure pleasure — the Entertainment's…
echoes
From: DFW interviewed by Terry Gross — Fresh Air, NPR (March 5, 1997)
- Early text:
[scene] The cruise exchange: you buy a week in which
everything but the pleasurably stimulated nerve endings is switched
off — they even do your whistling-in-the-graveyard for you
[00:02:32]; vacation's task-and-reward mythology has you float, one week
a year, in an amniotic bath of pure pleasure to recharge [00:03:20];
plus the essay-derived infantilizing verdict — so little demanded of him
that a supermarket line became an unendurable ordeal [00:03:20]
- IJ echo: the adjudicated contents core of the Entertainment — the
crib's-eye wobbled lens, the maternal figure inclined over the
viewer-as-infant (scene 178, pp. 938–941) — and EUP's
anaclitic/fetal-viewing-posture bridge already at author force
- Weight: shared-preoccupation