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Chris Ceasar is known for her personable manner and her beaming personality.
That smiling face will no longer be seen in the Aiken County offices as she celebrated her retirement Wednesday afternoon.
Ceasar, originally from North Augusta and now living in Graniteville, spent 25 years working with the county, starting in the tax assessor's office where she worked for about six months. She later moved into the County Administrator's office as the public relations deputy and assistant clerk to Council.
"She's been a fixture of the county for 25 years," said County Administrator Clay Killian. "She's worked with us for a long time. I hate to see her go, but I'm excited for her and the turning of the next page in her life."
Caesar has experienced many memorable moments over the last two decades. One that sticks out in her mind was working on a Council agenda with former County Administrator Scott Barnes until 3 a.m. She remembered papers of agenda items and information lining the hallway. The result of the exhaustive task was a "very thick" agenda packet, she said, laughing.
Those who have known Ceasar for many years, like County Councilwoman LaWana McKenzie, said that she's done so much for the county and has always put her best foot forward in her work.
"I think Chris has been sort of a face of Aiken County," McKenzie said. "She's a friend to everybody. To me, that's what makes her special."
Councilman Andrew Siders, who was elected in November 2012, didn't get the chance to work with Ceasar for long before her retirement, but in that short time, he quickly learned that she was a hardworking, positive individual, he said.
"She's just a breath of fresh air," Siders said. "I'm going to miss her."
Caesar has also given back to her community through extracurricular activities such as acting as the United Way Board Chair in the 1990s and served in other capacities within the nonprofit organization. She also served on the Salvation Army board and was one of the former NAACP presidents for the North Augusta chapter.
At the retirement event on Wednesday, a resolution was presented to Ceasar by County Council, thanking her for her years of service. Another resolution from the State House was written up to recognize Ceasar's work with the county.
Caesar said that she has appreciated the opportunity to work with the county and has enjoyed her job immensely. Her advice to her co-workers is to continue doing what they're doing.
"They need to remember why they're here – to assist the citizens of Aiken County," she said. "Do your job as well as you can and enjoy it."
When asked what she'll miss the most, Ceaser's reply was quick and enthusiastic.
"The easy answer would be the people."


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Now I know times and customs have changed, but I'm at a loss to guess what today's teenagers look forward to on the weekends as warm weather approaches.
Take the spring of my senior year of high school for example. Lancaster was a hopping place, despite downtown merchants closing at noon every Tuesday for the day.
We were making news for several reasons. My classmates in the textile and home economics classes had come together an sent the state superintendent of education a box of handkerchiefs they had made.
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Since 1922, the Girls Scouts of The United States America have been distributing cookies in some way or form.
Cherie Ellis, who has worked with Lancaster's Girl Scouts for 15 years, is community development manager for Girl Scouts of South Carolina in Lancaster County. She says preliminary numbers from cookie presales are already 370 boxes more than last year.
"Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce and exploit gender stereotypes," Liz Lemon, Tina Fey's cynical character on NBC's sitcom "30 Rock," tells her co-worker, Pete.
Lemon's view on the commercialization of Valentine's Day has become one commonly shared by those who feel the holiday is just another way greeting card companies and retailers get customers to spend money and put a monetary value on love.
Who's going to win the big game this year? You are. After all, the key to a winning party is in the company you invite and the snacks you serve.
I'll leave the invite list up to you, I sure can help with the snacks. At www.justapinch.com, we've been cooking up a sporty storm in search of the best game day eats.
Thanks to all of the entries we received in the Third Annual Sporty Snack Showdown contest – there was no shortage of tasty candidates.
Bryce Blanton, a member of Boy Scout Troop No. 72, recently completed his Eagle project. Blanton's project was to renovate the outdoor fish pond at North Elementary School and build a pergola to shade the pond. He also performed landscaping and general repairs to improve the school's natural classroom area. Overall, 20 volunteers spent more than 120 hours to complete this project. As a scout, Branton has held leadership positions of scribe, quartermaster and librarian, and has earned 29 merit badges.
Mental illness is a subject that has become less taboo in recent years, and a Heath Springs man has written a book on the topic, in the hopes of helping others who struggle with it.
At 67, this is Mike Addison's first published book, and is entitled "The Life Boat – One Man's Journey with Mental Illness."
It chronicles Addison's 50-year struggle with a chemical imbalance, depression/anxiety disorder and severe obsessive compulsive disorder.
Springs Memorial Hospital
On Friday, Feb. 1, Springs Memorial Hospital will once again join the American Heart Association's National Go Red for Women campaign and is inviting all of Lancaster and the surrounding area, both males and females, to join with them on this day by wearing the color red.
CHARLESTON – Charleston Southern University recently recognized Robert H. "Bobby" Edwards of Lancaster for his years of service to the University, most recently as a member of the Board of Trustees.
Edwards, president and owner of Catawba Fish Camp, 6131 Lancaster Highway, Fort Lawn, has been a longtime supporter of the university and has served in numerous capacities, including: the Board of Trustees, the Board of Visitors and the Buccaneer Club Board of Directors.
Canned soup is my friend. Like any ingredient – expensive or not – it is what you make of it, and let me tell you, there are some really tasty, economical casserole recipes out there that elevate the humble can of soup to an art form.
GREAT FALLS – The Bible tells us of a crucifixion that took place nearly 2,000 years ago on a hill called Golgotha in Jerusalem.
Three men were crucified on wooden crosses placed on the hillside.
On one cross was a vile, arrogant man who was completely unremorseful for any wrongdoing. On the other cross hung a man who was guilty of a crime but sought repentance and mercy and found it.
On the center cross hung Jesus Christ who was completely innocent of any crime or action that was considered sin.
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It's all in the numbers. The earlier you get in line before the stores open for Black Friday, the better your chances are to get door-busting bargains as shoppers compete to get the most bang for their bucks. But on the day that traditionally marks the start of the holiday shopping season, retailers, too, vie for the bucks.
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The earlier you get in line before the stores open for Black Friday, the better your chances are to get door-busting bargains as shoppers compete to get the most bang for their bucks.
But on the day that traditionally marks the start of the holiday shopping season, retailers, too, vie for the bucks.
So they are opening their doors earlier than ever in hope of by getting a jump on their competition.
Some retailers will start their Black Friday door-buster sales tonight, even before the Thanksgiving dinner leftovers have had time to cool in the refrigerator.
Retail powerhouses like Walmart, Sears, Kmart and Toys R Us will open their doors at 8 p.m. That means some folks could have their holiday shopping done by the time the clock strikes midnight and the historical Black Friday begins.
In the mad rush to lure shoppers, some retailers started featuring holiday specials more than a week ago.
Again, it's all in the numbers.
"The holiday shopping season can account for as much as 40 percent of a retailer's annual sales," said Kristy Reynolds, the Bruno professor of marketing at the University of Alabama's business college.
She said nationally holiday sales are expected to rise 4.1 percent this year, a smaller increase than the 5.6 percent seen last year. The Alabama Retail Association projections indicate state shoppers will spend $350 million more with state retailers during the holiday shopping season, pushing the total to more than $9 billion.
But the competition for that spending is extremely intense, Reynolds said.
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She noted Walmart, one of the country's largest retailers, did market research that showed one of the best times to attract Black Friday shoppers was between 8 and 10 p.m. today — thus its early opening.
That will cause many early-bird shoppers to start forming lines outside some stores before sunset. But not all are happy to see Black Friday creep into Thanksgiving Day.
"Some employees have not been enthusiastic about the early opening hours," Reynolds said. "Two Target employees started an online petition asking the store to stay closed on Thanksgiving."
Target opens for Black Friday at 9 tonight.
Some Walmart employees also are protesting the encroachment on the holiday with employees in some cities threatening to stage protests or wildcat strikes at stores.
The competition to attract customers is not limited to the big-box stores. National chains that have smaller specialty stores and even independent stores are in the mix, too.
Denise Connell, assistant property manager and marketing director at University Mall, said the mall and 15 to 20 of its non-anchor retailers will open at midnight or shortly thereafter tapping into the crowds expected for Belk's midnight opening and Sears' even earlier opening at 8 tonight. Those smaller retailers are mostly affiliated with national retail chains, she said.
Many locally owned businesses also will have their own promotions and specials for Black Friday.
For example, Temple Gym, an independently owned fitness center on Union Chapel Road in Northport, is offering a Black Friday Only special — $10 gift cards that are good for a three-month gym membership worth $165.
"Anyone can come in and buy as many gift cards as they want" from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., said gym owners Shannon and Kristi Cook in a statement.
The offer is not a money maker but it is designed to attract new members and hope they stay after the trial period, they said.
While many shoppers will plot strategies for hitting the stores, others are expected to shop online this weekend.
"Online sales are also very important," Reynolds said. "Amazon.com has been offering deals every day since Nov. 1. There are online deals all week, Thanksgiving Day, and throughout the weekend.
"Last year, online sales accounted for nearly 40 percent of Black Friday weekend sales. Some retailers are offering even bigger deals if shoppers download the stores' apps and sign up for emails."
The intense competition will likely lead to good deals throughout the shopping season, Reynolds said.
But she cautioned that shoppers need to do their homework. She cited a recent Wall Street Journal article that some items advertised as Black Friday specials were not the retailers' best sales price.
"For example, a certain type of Ugg boots were actually cheaper in October," Reynolds said.
Stores will continue with sales items this weekend and in the weeks leading up to Christmas with many retailers opening earlier and closing later.
Stores in Tuscaloosa should see good business Saturday morning, but in the afternoon, the Iron Bowl, which is being played at Bryant-Denny Stadium starting at 2:30, will take center stage.
"I think some shoppers will shop before and after the game," Reynolds said. "Some shoppers may take advantage of stores being less crowded during the game. If shoppers think the deals are good enough, they will shop through the weekend."


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The International Youth Forum Go4BioDiv gives young adults between 18 and 29 the possibility to engage in the Conferences of the Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD-COP). Initiated by the German development cooperation (GIZ) and the German National Park of the Bavarian Forest, Go4BioDiv has been carried out twice so far, in 2008 and 2010, parallel to the Conferences of the Parties in Germany and Japan. Young messengers from five continents sent wake-up-calls to the world community for conserving biological and the often associated cultural diversity.
The theme of Go4BioDiv 2012 will be 'Conserving coastal and marine biodiversity for sustaining life and livelihoods'. In order to attract major media and political attention to the outputs of Go4BioDiv, the young Messengers should come from outstanding marine and coastal sites. The international participants (25 out of 35) must therefore have a close personal or working relationship with Marine World Heritage sites. Since India has the largest population of youth below 29 world-wide, 10 young leaders will come from other marine or coastal sites in India (1 per coastal State, 1 representing the Union Territories).
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MEXICO CITY Two months after President Enrique Pena Nieto took office promising to reduce violent crime, the killings linked to Mexico's drug cartels continue unabated.
Only the government's talk about them has dropped.
Eighteen members of a band and its retinue were kidnappedand apparently slain over the weekend in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon by gunmen who asked them to name their cartel affiliation before they were shot and dumped in a well. Fourteen prisoners and nine guards died in an attempted prison escape in Durango state. Nine men were slain Christmas eve in Sinaloa. In the state of Mexico, which borders the capital, more than a dozen bodies were found last week, some dismembered.
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The difference under this administration is that there have been no major press conferences announcing more troops or federal police for drug-plagued hotspots. Gone are the regular parades of newly arrested drug suspects before the media with their weapons, cash or contraband.
Pena Nieto has been mum, instead touting education, fiscal and energy reforms. On Monday, he told a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Chile that he wants Mexico to focus on being a player in solving world and regional problems.
Some political observers praise him for trying to change the conversation and presenting an alternative face of Mexico. Critics suggest the country's new leaders believe that the best way to solve a security crisis is to create distractions.
"What Pena Nieto is doing is ... sweeping violence under the rug in hopes that no one notices," said security expert Jorge Chabat. "It can be effective in the short term, until the violence becomes so obvious that you can't change the subject."
The Pena Nieto government didn't immediately respond to requests for interviews. Secretary of Interior Jose Osorio Chong had a closed-door meeting with the governors of Mexico's central states about security on Monday. In a press conference afterward, he promised to increase patrols along a highway system already bristling with military and police roadblocks and checkpoints.
The apparent weekend killing of 18 members of Kombo Kolombia, which had played at a private performance late Thursday, was the largest mass kidnapping and killing since 20 tourists disappeared and were later found dead in 2011 near the resort city of Acapulco. Searchers this week were pulling bodies from a well in northern Mexico that they said likely belonged to the band.
An area known as the Laguna, where Coahuila and Durango states meet, has been the scene of numerous battles between factions of the Sinaloa the Zetas cartels.
The State of Mexico has had 70 slayings so far this year, according to Gov. Eruviel Avila. La Familia has moved in from the neighboring state of Michoacan and is fighting for territory with a smaller gang known as the United Warriors. Meanwhile, masked vigilantes patrol towns in the southern state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast, where citizens have grown tired of organized crime usurping local authority.
Communications expert Ruben Aguilar said the Pena Nieto government is right to change the focus from security, which had been the main topic throughout the six-year administration of President Felipe Calderon, who left office on Dec. 1.
"On the subject of security, President Calderon went against all logic and turned it into the country's only issue," said Aguilar, who was spokesman for previous President Vicente Fox. "The theme itself is addictive for the media, and generates a negative social mood."
It's difficult to say if drug violence has risen because the government no longer provides numbers, something that started under Calderon, who last released drug-war death statistics in September 2011.
The newspaper Reforma, one of several media outlets that count murders linked to organized crime, said that in December, the first month of the new government, there were 755 drug-related killings, compared to 699 in November. In Calderon's six-year term, some 70,000 people lost their lives to drug violence, the newspaper reported, with at least 20,000 believed missing.
Pena Nieto's election marked the return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ran Mexico for 71 years. Under Calderon, violence exploded and cartels splintered. Many Mexicans believed drug violence would start to wane with the return of the PRI, assuming it would negotiate to keep the peace - something party leaders have consistently denied.
Upon taking office Dec. 1, Pena Nieto announced that he would work to restore peace, saying the government would change its security strategy to reducing murders, kidnappings and extortion more than going after cartel leaders . He released a security plan that was not clearly different from Calderon's. Among the few specifics was a plan to establish a gendarmerie to patrol dangerous areas, a force that will take several years to build. Meanwhile he is keeping the military on the streets, just as Calderon did.
The Pena Nieto government also said that it will only talk about violence in terms of "hard data."
Eduardo Sánchez, the undersecretary for media in the Interior Ministry, told Mexico's official news agency last week that the federal government will no longer present detainees to the media or mention prisoners' aliases - be it "the Squirrel" or "El Brad Pitt" - a highly criticized practice under Calderon.
The idea, Sanchez said, is to avoid glorifying violence, which is already celebrated in some circles through music and clothing styles.
"We don't want the youth in this country to feel like crime is attractive or a good place in increase your social economic status," Sanchez told local reporters last week.
He said the government has arrested 854 people for drug-related crimes its first month in office, and said 69 criminals were killed in confrontations with the armed forces. But he would not say to which organized crime groups they belonged or the circumstances of their deaths or capture.
Carlos Reyes, spokesman for the congressional delegation of the opposition Democratic Revolution Party, was critical of the new approach.
"The actions of the government need to be transparent in terms of being precise about the level of the problem and how you're going to address it, not evade or disguise it," he said.
Edna Jaime, director of the policy analysis firm Mexico Evaluates, it's too early to criticize the new government's approach.
"The dynamic of violence is not going to change in a month or a month and half," she said, though she added that the government should have a strategy by now. The narrative will change "when it's accompanied by real change," she added.


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John and Dominique de Menil first conceived of the Rothko Chapel in 1964 as a Catholic chapel affiliated with the University of St. Thomas. However, the plan for the Chapel gradually grew away from the more traditional worship space envisioned by the University, and in 1969, the de Menils decided instead to donate the Chapel to the Institute of Religion and Human Development, which provided chaplaincy training in the Texas Medical Center. By 1972, the Chapel's mission had diverged from that of the Institute, as well, and the chapel became an independent entity. The Chapel's official mission is to "provide a place of worship, meditation and prayer for persons of all faiths; to provide a forum for people to gather and explore spiritual bonds common to all; to discuss human problems of worldwide interest; and to share a spiritual experience, each loyal to his or her belief, each respectful of the beliefs of others."
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Paintings: Fall 1964 – April 1967. Building: May – October 1970. Painting installation: February 1971.
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Although originally conceived as a Catholic chapel, the Rothko Chapel soon became an independent, interfaith place for spiritual contemplation. It has been called the world's first broadly ecumenical center. The Chapel has come to signify the ecumenical power of art and has fostered discussions about social justice and human rights, bringing together such figures from around the world as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Jimmy Carter. The Chapel also gives out periodic awards in recognition of human rights efforts. In keeping with the Chapel's spirit of peace and equality, the statue Broken Obelisk, installed in front of the Chapel in 1971, was dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rothko's extensive input in the Chapel's architectural design resulted in marked interplay between his paintings and the building's plan. Unlike with his two previously commissioned series—the 1958 murals originally intended for the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City's Seagram building, and the 1962 murals for the Holyoke Center at Harvard—Rothko was not painting for a predesigned space but was able to help shape the setting for his work. He did not begin the paintings until the plan and interior walls were decided. The Chapel is significant not only as a work of modernist architecture but also, because of Rothko's paintings, as a work of modern art. As such, the Chapel blurs the line between architecture and art, challenging this distinction in both its aesthetic effect and the struggle involved in Johnson and Rothko's attempted collaboration in its design.
The Chapel was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, 30 years after its construction, an exception to the normal 50 year limit. According to Suna Umari, the Chapel's executive director at the time, "The committee that approved the chapel's designation felt that because in the last 25 years there was enough documentation and recognition of it there was no question about its significance. Additionally, the fact that the artist, Mark Rothko, passed away some years ago means there will never be another one created." Rothko's suicide a year before the Chapel's opening influenced some critics and visitors to view the darkly-colored paintings inside as bleak and disheartening, but the artworks are otherwise appreciated as expressing a sense of solitude and spirituality that transcends their color. Considered Rothko's greatest work, the Chapel is internationally reputed, though not so much for the architecture itself as for the art that dictates it. The Chapel has been compared in importance to the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France, by Henri Matisse and the Chapel in Ronchamp, France, by Le Corbusier.
The Rothko Chapel is a monument to the legacy of Mark Rothko, as well as that of the de Menils, who played a key role in developing Houston's cultural life. The Chapel has long been a popular tourist site in the city, where it is often viewed in conjunction with the nearby Menil Collection; in fact, attendance at the Chapel doubled from 20,000 to 40,000 people per year after the museum opened in 1987. Internationally celebrated, the Chapel has also inspired other renowned works, such as the 1971 classical music piece "Rothko Chapel" by composer Morton Feldman, which continues to be performed (for instance, by the San Francisco Symphony in February 2011).
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The New Yorker this week published online an excerpt from David Foster Wallace's The Pale King that has stirred quite a bit of discussion on the wallace-l mailing list, most of it centering, as the fragment does, on religious feeling. As an atheist myself, I have a tendency to think/wish/hope that smart people I admire are also atheists. It's strange, I know, but why not hope for an extension of affinities into that area of thought and feeling? Although I don't feel as if I really need (as in emotionally need) external validation of my position, it's still neat to share a viewpoint with people you admire. It's not really clear what Wallace's beliefs with respect to religion were, though. We know from various sources that he went to church but wasn't raised religious. He certainly seemed, in Infinite Jest, to acknowledge that there was value in recognizing a higher power. Yet he wasn't the evangelical sort by any stretch of the imagination, and it's pretty easy, from where I sit, to imagine that he valued the cultural and communal bits of religion while relying more on secular thought for his personal ethics. We'll probably never know exactly where he stood in real life. In the new fragment, entitled "All That," he seems to be pretty open to religion and to a sort of spiritualism.
Here I'll begin to talk about the story, so if you haven't read it yet and are anti-spoiler, you might want to mosey on along.
The narrator gives accounts of two events in his life that were instrumental in helping him form a religious sensibility. The first, in which his parents convinced him that a toy truck was endowed with a sort of magic, speaks (I think) to the idea of faith and how the not knowing via evidence that what you have faith in is true is a part of what makes it special. How sad it would be, he suggests, to actually trap the tooth fairy. And, by extension, how disappointing it would be, I suppose, to finally find empirical evidence of God. A belief system constructed around the idea of faith becomes meaningless when faith is no longer a necessity. Magic tricks aren't as fun to watch once you know how they're done. Faith, which people like me see as a flaw of religion, may in fact be one of the points and joys of religion.
The second formative event centers on the narrator's recollection of a movie's plot and how it differs from his father's recollection. The difference has less to do with faith than with actions. I guess it has something of love thy neighbor in it. More on that in a moment.
At the heart of both episodes is a sort of duality. The narrator says the following about differing perceptions:
Possibly, though, another cause for the sadness was that I realized, on some level, that my parents, when they watched me trying to devise schemes for observing the drum's rotation, were wholly wrong about what they were seeing—that the world they saw and suffered over was wholly different from the childhood world in which I existed.
Later, we have the father and son's vastly different recollections of the movie. And within the movie itself, we're told of a prevailing sentiment and a sentiment (on the part of the narrator within the movie) at odds with it. In all cases, given the same objective inputs, opposite subjective conclusions are reached. There's a failure to align perceptions.
Interestingly, our narrator hears voices as a child whose speakers do inhabit the same space he does. Their perceptions agree with his in a way that, he figures, biological adults' perceptions can't, and the voices are a source of real fits of ecstasy (as in rolling on the floor, capital-E Ecstasy) on the boy's part. Of that ecstasy, we learn the following:
[M]y father (who clearly "enjoyed" me and my eccentricities) once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.
I suppose there are certain resonances of this fragment with parts of Infinite Jest. There's the infantilization of rolling around on the floor, being stroked lovingly by his mother, being more or less cradled in the father's lap, and of course this idea of being the center of a happiness conspiracy. But the first of Wallace's works that sprang to mind when I read the fragment was "Getting Away from Already Pretty Much Being Away from it All" (the state fair essay), in which Wallace writes the following:
One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? — that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? — that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit? Does anybody else identify with this memory? The child leaves a room, and now everything in that room, once he's no longer there to see it, melts away into some void of potential or else (my personal childhood theory) is trundled away by occult adults and stored until the child's reentry into the room recalls it all back into animate service. Was this nuts? It was radically self-centered, of course, this conviction, and more than a little paranoid. Plus the responsibility it conferred: if the whole of the world dissolved and resolved each time I blinked, what if my eyes didn't open?
Maybe what I really miss now is the fact that a child's radical delusive self-centeredness doesn't cause him conflict or pain. His is the sort of regally innocent solipsism of like Bishop Berkeley's God: all things are nothing until his sight calls them forth from the void: his stimulation is the world's very being. And this is maybe why a little kid so fears the dark: it's not the possible presence of unseen fanged things in the dark, but rather the actual absence of everything his blindness has now erased. For me, at least, pace my folks' indulgent smiles, this was my true reason for needing a nightlight: it kept the world turning.
Back to the story at hand, we begin with the narrator making discoveries about faith and about his own agency. But there's a sort of inversion from what Wallace writes about in the essay excerpted above: the world (or the cement mixer's drum) revolves (he believes) only when the boy isn't looking at it vs. the world existing only when Wallace, as a child, was looking at it.
In the essay, Wallace writes specifically of solipsism, of being trapped more or less within yourself. I am in here. In the fragment, I think he's writing about getting outside yourself. It's not that the world stops when you close your eyes to it but that no matter how hard you try, you can't really see or understand certain forces external to your direct experience. So a certain amount or sort of faith becomes useful. Wallace first gives us something of a thought experiment with the toy cement mixer, but in the movie scenario, he gives us a more complex situation to ponder. The conflict in that scenario is whether it's nobler to protect your own or to protect others from your own. It's a very complex question within context, for you have to consider the broader war itself, the particular roles of the participants in question within that context, the particular moods of and recent influences on all participants, and so on. But if we're a little more reductive about it, I think we can boil the scenario down a bit and understand it as a consideration of the other vs. the self (another duality), with Wallace suggesting that reaching out to protect the other — getting outside your self — may sometimes be the nobler path.
The narrator views the movie's lieutenant's last noble act (as the narrator remembers it, that is) with a sort of ecstasy that calls to mind the ecstasy he felt as a younger child when listening to the voices in his head. But this ecstasy is the result of external forces rather than of internal agreeable voices and so shows a sort of development outward from in here.
There's a lot I'm still trying to unpack about this fragment, and I'm not at all satisfied with what I've written above as an interpretive essay. There's some big connection I feel like I'm missing. But it's a start.
A couple of other things have come up on the list. For example, why did the narrator's parents screw with him with the whole magic thing, especially if they're devout atheists who you wouldn't think would want to promote superstition? I think the simple answer is that sometimes parents just say silly things because it's fun to joke around. Every morning that I drive my daughter and a neighbor to kindergarten, I ask if I should speed up and jump the railroad tracks (it's a big hump and would cause a lot of damage to my vehicle if I jumped it). When they scream gleefully that I should, I slap my thigh and lament that I thought of it too late, that there's simply not enough runway to get adequate speed. Remind me tomorrow, I tell them. Ever since my children were old enough to understand and respond to language, I've presented them with goofy scenarios and waited for them to correct me. Parents just do this sort of thing. In the fragment, it does seem that the parents play an active role in perpetuating the magical thinking, but the germination of the thing doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary. And sometimes you just want your kids to work things out for themselves. We do the whole Santa thing, but when my kids start thinking critically about it and questioning the stories, we'll encourage it obliquely so that they arrive at appropriate conclusions without being force fed the truth.I can't help thinking that Wallace is saying something else about faith here. There's plenty of magical thinking involved in faith. You can never really know for sure that God's there behind the scenes making stuff happen, and maybe the harder you look, the more likely you are to determine that God's not really there — that the drum isn't spinning after all. If we think of it this way, then the parents almost become God surrogates, providing information about the truck (or about reality) but requiring that the child work out on his own whatever his beliefs about the truck are. The narrator doesn't understand why his parents have made a puzzle of this for him any more than people understand why God isn't more obvious about his existence and plan, and yet the fact that it's a puzzle has turned out to be valuable to the narrator. Faith, as I suggested above, may be one of the joys of religion.
Another issue that came up on the list was the narrator's statements that he wasn't very articulate and the fact that he is actually pretty articulate. Whether it points to insecurity or to false modesty or to real modesty I'm not sure. It certainly seems like one of those framing or narrative tricks that Wallace has used before to remind us that what we're reading is mediated.
Not discussed as yet on wallace-l is the Catholicism present in the story. It's minor, but the boy mentions going to Mass with neighbors. Given my last paragraph, I'm having trouble not saying something about the mediation inherent in that religion, though I don't think Wallace is really doing anything with that here. But the ecstasy, in association with the presence of Catholicism, calls to mind the various references to The Ecstasy of St. Teresa in Infinite Jest, and I wonder if more couldn't be mined out of this material. In the gruesome ecstasy scene in IJ, there's actually quite a bit more Catholic subtext than is apparent to a recent or non-Catholic (do a little research on the titles of the magazines named in the scene, if you're curious), and that makes me all the more curious about the reference to Catholicism in this fragment.
December 11, 2009 at 4:35 pm
This is really a phenomenal interpretation. I'm beginning to see how, thematically, The Pale King seems to be an effort at offering a solution to the dangers and problems posed in Infinite Jest.
December 11, 2009 at 6:06 pm
It is often said that faith itself is a miracle, e.g.:
December 11, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Nice response to the new piece. I empathize with the atheist's expectation for similar freedom from dogma in his/her intellectual peers and mentors that you invoke right up front. I have a lot more to say on the topic and I'll send along some more developed thoughts in a later comment, but for now I'll just point you to Zadie Smith's essay on Wallace and Brief Interviews specifically in her newly released collection. She concludes with some notes on "Church Not Made with Hands", a decidedly agnostic slice of the DFW oeuvre, and also calls Wallace's tastes Catholic, citing Philip Larkin. Lastly, for now, I found it interesting to hear a list of Wallace favs (recorded in the D.T. Max New Yorker article as from an interview which I've been unable to locate elsewhere) include St. Paul and to see his affinity for Kierkegaard (it'd take me longer to cite where I got that one) and, finally, to note even the in-this-light slightly loaded set of sentences in a grammar quiz (http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19945) making its way around recently.
December 14, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I really liked your interpretation. I just had two little comments. I think you have to be seriously careful when moving from Wallace's fiction to speculating on his private beliefs. I think, as a culture, we hate not knowing someones private beliefs (because we should know everything–there's no such thing as privacy anymore). We want to know where they "stand" as you put it. But why can't we accept the idea that private belief is complex, contradictory, and based highly on contingency, and any attempt to reduce someone as complex as Wallace to a single position is probably too limiting? I also think you should be careful moving too easily from the fiction to the non-fiction. These are radically different rhetorical modes–two very different uses of language–and just because they might share a motif doesn't mean we can easily compare them.
December 14, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Aengebretson, I suppose that at the close of my first paragraph, I did say that this piece of fiction gestured toward a personal openness toward religion on Wallace's part. It's easy enough to form a similar opinion based on parts of Infinite Jest too. It's dangerous ground, for sure, and not really ground I meant to tread on. I think I was trying to push back a little bit, almost out of a sense of fairness or honesty, against my tendency to want to think he'd believe what I do. Point well taken, in any case.
Regarding comparison of the fiction to the nonfiction, I agree that they're different modes, but the sort of nonfiction Wallace gives us in the essay I mentioned isn't so far from fiction as I think you suggest. Wallace writes about the fuzzy line between the genres in his preface to the Best American Essays collection of a couple of years back. I don't mean to say that the two sorts of work can be put right side by side, but I don't think they're necessarily quite so segregated, either. At any rate, what I'm trying to do here is not to come up with a tidy synthesis of his position re religion as explained by his cross-genre work. I'm just pointing out things I noticed and sort of thinking aloud. The essay did spring instantly to mind as I read the story. I'm happy enough to allow that that may (probably does) say more about what I bring to the table than about Wallace's project.
Thanks for chiming in. 🙂
December 24, 2009 at 6:02 pm
This regards both Aengebretson's comment and your response to it. You're right to point out that in the ABE2008 forward, Wallace spoke of the blend of these genres. But beyond coming right out and saying it, Wallace seems to draw heavily from his own life in both his fiction and non-fiction. I think, at least for this author, we can begin to speculate on his private beliefs. In fact, one of the most endearing things about Wallace was how open he made himself in print, so that one could have a conversation with the author, albeit all further responses would be in the readers imagination. I believe you are missing some evidence though, in your essay. DFW spoke quite openly about spirituality and belief in his 2005 Kenyon commencement speech. He posits that there are no such things as atheists, and that worship is as human as language. So we are certain of his belief in that. He also mentions going to church in the essay The View from Mrs. Thompson's. But thats not germane to what I think is somewhat bothersome about your post. It's the fact that the whole magic and subsequent reverence of the truck comes from NOT observing it. I followed a link to this post thinking I may have found a discussion about adult faith vs. childlike credulity and how that's relevant to our species (and country) as a whole. But instead you've spent most of your time responding to small textual tricks and remaining on the surface of things. I would love to see a deeper discussion of the ends and not the means.
December 10, 2009 at 4:10 pm


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