Interesting parallel analogy, with a unexpected image at the end (Wittgenstein's house). The aggression and mania of the house, and the story of its abandonment. Thomas Bernhard's "Correction" (1975) is a meditation on that particular kind of aggression: in the novel it's Roithamer's aggression against his sister to make the perfect house for her (perhaps to trap her, or to control her) and against himself (by setting himself an impossible task). I just finished reading Gert Jonke's "Geometric Regional Novel," which is like an echo of "Correction": it's about an apparently perfect region of Austria that is kept tenuously under control by a proliferation of inhuman bureaucratic laws and customs. That book, too, is full of ucontrolled violence, some of it planned by the author and some, I think, uncontrolled.
Just by way of saying your very hopeful account of groups and rooms is followed, very affectingly, by a story about the unhelpful violence of rooms.
Interesting parallel analogy, with a unexpected image at the end (Wittgenstein's house). The aggression and mania of the house, and the story of its abandonment. Thomas Bernhard's "Correction" (1975) is a meditation on that particular kind of aggression: in the novel it's Roithamer's aggression against his sister to make the perfect house for her (perhaps to trap her, or to control her) and against himself (by setting himself an impossible task). I just finished reading Gert Jonke's "Geometric Regional Novel," which is like an echo of "Correction": it's about an apparently perfect region of Austria that is kept tenuously under control by a proliferation of inhuman bureaucratic laws and customs. That book, too, is full of ucontrolled violence, some of it planned by the author and some, I think, uncontrolled.
Just by way of saying your very hopeful account of groups and rooms is followed, very affectingly, by a story about the unhelpful violence of rooms.
Love this!