Shawn Huelle

Reading Der Mensch Erscheint im Holozän, Section 8

pp. 115-130

Es ist noch viel zu tun—

  1. Herr Geiser has a minor stroke.
    1.1. The stroke occurs during the pictures of the dinosaurs.
    1.2. Previously, Herr Geiser lurched over the mountains in the night, but is not now an amphibian.
    1.3. Presumably, Herr Geiser lurched from his chair onto the floor.

  2. Herr Geiser locks himself away in his house and refuses to answer the door or the phone.
    2.1. Because the Zettelwand makes him look crazy?
    2.2. Because his stroke-closed eye makes him look like an amphibian?
    2.3. Because he simply doesn't want any visitors?

  3. Herr Geiser roasts the cat.
    3.1. Herr Geiser roasts the cat in the fireplace.
    3.2. But does not eat it.
    3.3. Even though that was, ostensibly, the plan.

  4. Herr Geiser begins the narration of a memory
    4.1. This is the first time in the book a memory has been narrated.
    4.2. Unless we count pp66-7: "Einmal im Sommer hatten die Spechte sozusagen eine Idee."
    4.3. Otherwise, memory resides in the Zettel; memory belongs to the culture (the Bible), memory belongs to the earth (the lexicon).

—nun ist dieser Text zerstückelt, unbrauchbar.