Don DeLillo  &  Diane Ackerman

White Noise  &  A Natural History of the Senses 

Pavlov gave dogs a strong electric shock...he fed them...they wagged their tails and salivated...
Kafka wrote short stories in which people endure pain...Do these people not feel pain at all?...
Or, like T.E. Lawrence, do they feel pain in all its molten terror and not mind?    (Ackerman 108)
Here is how Rilke describes Rodin's artistry:
    "...Hands rising upright, angry and irritated, hands whose five bristling fingers seem to bark like the five throats of Cerberus."   (Ackerman 118)
 II - The Airborne Toxic Event
Chapter 21
(DeLillo 107)

Heinrich watches, black billowing clouds, mylar suits, SIMUVAC, people waiting till it's too late, etc...

by Michael Harkins




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