Haphazard Thoughts

Since Une Semaine de Bonte  seems to be more about reaction that comprehension, here are a few sporadic thoughts as they came to me:

I found the various framed pictures in the "Tuesday" section to be rather fascinating. The bizarre images the frames often contained brought them out of the background, where wall decorations are usually situated, and shoved them suddenly and strikingly close to the viewer. My favorite may have been on page 79. Or perhaps 77, a portrait (or mirror?) which I imagined to be revealing the woman's true intentions--intentions that (to me) weren't particularly benign. The chaos of the framed images on 111 was effective as well.

As Rachel mentioned, there were tons of recurring images that showed up throughout the entire work. A few that struck me (other than the more obvious ones denoted by the particular "example" of the chapter--can we call them chapters?): snakes, insects, leaf-stamps, and the innards of plants.

The fact that so often it was the faces that were replaced intrigued me. For a long time, I've found the idea of masks and their symbolic nature to be fascinating. By replacing the human face with an animal one, their very identity, their humanness was stripped away--or perhaps, their base animal natures revealed.

I thought the giant eyeball at the bottom of page 134 was very disturbing. Until it occurred to me that it was in the section in which the example was "Oedipus"; then I thought it was kind of hilarious. Also, I liked page 181 better upside down.