Arendt, Byron, and De Quincey in Dark Times

Khalip, Jacques

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“…The Dark Interpreter is an internal projection of the exteriorized self. While Jacques Khalip describes him as a “compulsive duplicate of ourselves‐as‐other,” the duplication that creates him is a duplication‐through‐division (621). Like the worm of childhood lore, that can be divided in half to survive as two worms, and halved again to create four, this projection is more than just “the dark symbolic mirror for reflecting to the daylight what else must be hidden forever (163) 15 .…”

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The Child of the City and the Palimpsest at Sea: De Quincey’s Chronological Constraints

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2012

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This article concerns De Quincey’s attempts to materialize the experience of time. It takes as its focal point De Quincey’s relationship to childhood and his attempts to arrest time in the body of the child. It addresses De Quincey’s encounters with childhood in “Confessions of an English Opium‐Eater,” the Savannah‐la‐Mar section of “Suspiria de Profundis,” and his little‐read story “The Spanish Military Nun.” For De Quincey, children share with the opium eater the ability to transgress the boundaries between then and now, here and not‐here. Like the drowning woman and the opium‐eater, they can access information and experiences ordinarily closed to adults, and like the drowning woman and the opium eater, their access is produced through ruin.

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Section: The “Palimpsest” At Seamentioning

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The Child of the City and the Palimpsest at Sea: De Quincey’s Chronological Constraints

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2012

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Arendt, Byron, and De Quincey in Dark Times

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The Child of the City and the Palimpsest at Sea: De Quincey’s Chronological Constraints

The Child of the City and the Palimpsest at Sea: De Quincey’s Chronological Constraints

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