Ordnance for 201.10 by Faye Halpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei Made with panache en-us 2016-09-26 23:43:03 UTC 2017-05-17 07:21:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Ordnance by Walter Benjamin  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126529186 1. I had arrived in Riga to visit a woman friend. 
2. Her house, the town, the language was unfamiliar to me. Nobody was expecting me, no one knew me. 
3. For two hours, I walked the streets in solitude. 
4. Never again have I seen them so. 
5. From every gate a flame darted, each cornerstone sprayed sparks, and every streetcar came toward me like a fire engine. 
6 For she might have stepped out of the gateway, around the corner, been sitting in the streetcar. 
7. But of the two of us I had to be, at any price, the first to see the other. 
8. For had she touched me with the match of her eyes, I should have gone up like a magazine. ]]> 2016-09-26 23:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126529186 line 1 functions as abstract and also give orientation fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126791545 2016-09-27 19:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126791545 line 2 seems orientation fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126791907 2016-09-27 19:05:01 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126791907 line 5 why doesn't it seem like complicating action even though it is? A series of events/describes what he's seeing /reminiscent of the way a wart-torn city might be described  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126792641 2016-09-27 19:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126792641 line 5 seems closely related to line 6 fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126793123 she's compared to the flame darting ]]> 2016-09-27 19:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126793123 what he's seeing reminds him of the war but maybe reminds him of her  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126794105 2016-09-27 19:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126794105 he's uncomfortable, apprehensive, he  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126794704 2016-09-27 19:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126794704 last line touches upon t story as a whole: it's evaluation  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126795100 2016-09-27 19:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126795100 magazine suggests narrator's pent-up emotion  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126795724 2016-09-27 19:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126795724 last line: does narrator want to be in charge/  he's defensive? he wants to have the upper hand/she was forbidden to him  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126795863 2016-09-27 19:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126795863 line 2: she didn't know he was there  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126796274 2016-09-27 19:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126796274 nothing really happens (he walked around for two hours) fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126796519 2016-09-27 19:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126796519 he doesn't tell you what's on his mind/ but he does project what he's feeling  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126796947 2016-09-27 19:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126796947 requires a lot of interpretation on the part of the reader  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126797309 2016-09-27 19:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126797309 what really happened between these two people; why is he visiting her? what kind of friend is this woman? does he ever find her? why does he want to see her first? why was no one expecting him?   fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126797753 2016-09-27 19:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126797753 not a long term couple: he either hasn't seen her in a long time or only met her briefly  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126799136 2016-09-27 19:30:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126799136 a lot of what happens isn't narrative, isn't actions (very little plot); what happens happens with the metaphors, lots figurative speech; chose every single word very carefully   fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126801006 2016-09-27 19:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126801006 open for interpretation; disagreements over interpretation  fayehalpern https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126801501 2016-09-27 19:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fayehalpern/f6t2a5blu6ei/wish/126801501