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steven had mentioned in The Raw Shark Texts Annotated Chapter 1 that some of the chapter titles “are ticks and traps in their own right.”
these could be some of them?
Chapter 6 – Time and the Hunter
Title of an Italo Calvino novel.
Amazon description: In this book, each second is an age, every cell a universe. Through a series of stories, the author illustrates the paradoxes of space and time. Estranged lovers forever travelling parallel highways, the hunter and lion trapped at each others throats and victims linked in mutual pursuit.
Chapter 18 – Yippy Yippy Ya Ya Yey yey Yey
A line from the Happy Monday’s song, Kinky Afro
Chapter 20 – The Arrangement
Title of a 1951 novel by Elia Kazan about a seemingly-successful Greek-American advertising executive and magazine writer living in an affluent Los Angeles suburb who suffers a nervous breakdown due to the stress of the way in which he has lived his life. (from Wikipedia)
Chapter 25 – Hakuun and Kuzan (All the Stars are Bleeding)
Haku'un Yasutani (安谷 白雲, 1885 - 1973) was the first abbot of the Zen Buddhist lineage of Sanbo Kyodan (or, Three Treasures Association).
Chapter 26 – It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards
Quote from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, in Chapter 5, Wool and Water:
`That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: `it always makes one a little giddy at first --'
`Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. `I never heard of such a thing!'
`-- but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
`I'm sure mine only works one way,' Alice remarked. `I can't remember things before they happen.'
`It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
`What sort of things do you remember best?' Alice ventured to ask.
Carl Jung also used this quote when he discussed the concept of synchronicity or meaningful coincidences
Chapter 27 – Who Are You Really, and What Were You Before?
Quote from the movie Casablanca:
Rick: Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do and what did you think, huh?
Ilsa: We said no questions.
Rick: ...Here's looking at you, kid.
Chapter 30 – Farewell and Adieu to You, Fair Spanish Ladies
Chapter 32 - Farewell and Adieu to You, Ladies of Spain
Quote from the movie Jaws:
[sings]
Quint: Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
Lyrics from an old English sea shanty called "Spanish Ladies"
Chapter 35 – Just Like Heaven
Song from The Cure:
"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
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Chapter 5: White Cloud and Blue MountainWe've already noted the influences of Zen teaching on Raw Shark; chapter 5's title, "White Cloud and Blue Mountain" also comes from a Zen teaching: The Meditative Way by Bucknell and Kang wrote:Tozan, a famous Zen master, said, "The blue mountain is the father of the white cloud. The white cloud is the son of the blue mountain. All day long they depend on each other, without being dependent on each ohter. The white cloud is always the white cloud. The blue mountain is always the blue mountain." This is a pure, clear interpretation of life. There are many things like the white cloud and blue mountain: man and woman, teacher and disciple. They depend on each other. But the white cloud shouldn not be bothered by the blue mountain. The blue mountain should not be bothered by the white cloud. They are quite independent, but yet dependent. This is how we live, and we practise zazen. The Ring of the Way by Deshmimaru; trans. by Amphoux wrote:In the truly spiritual mind there is no illusion. If we enjoy freedom of the mind, the white cloud and the blue mountain themselves are changed into shadows in our unique though, and the mist in the pine forest, the snow lying on the bamboo woods, are also changed into shadows in our unique thought. Then we can fish the moonlight and plow the clouds.
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benedict wrote:
Chapter 26 – It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards
Quote from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, in Chapter 5, Wool and Water:
`That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: `it always makes one a little giddy at first --'
`Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. `I never heard of such a thing!'
`-- but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
`I'm sure mine only works one way,' Alice remarked. `I can't remember things before they happen.'
`It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
`What sort of things do you remember best?' Alice ventured to ask.
Carl Jung also used this quote when he discussed the concept of synchronicity or meaningful coincidences
It's interesting you mention this. I remember when I was first reading the book and trying to figure out the relationship of Clio to Scout, I thought that Scout came before Clio and Eric was remembering the future - that is, the trip with Clio and all that hadn't happened at the time the narrative takes place. It would work if he's remembering things backwards... remembering the future and not knowing the past.
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Part One (p. 1): Quote:Some limited and waning memory of Herbert Ashe, an engineer of the southern railways, persists in the hotel at Adrogue, amongst the effusive honeysuckles and in the illusionary depths of the mirrors Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon, uqbar, Orbis TertiusPart Two (p.91): Quote:At night the salmon move out from the river and into the town. Raymond Carver, At Night The Salmon MovePart Three (p. 173): Quote:What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. Huraki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (I think) Part Four (p. 311): Quote:The word connects the visible trace with the invisble thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss. Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenium (I think)
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here is some more information on the section quotations from the annotated raw shark texts webpage!
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