Postmodernism Wall by Hüsna Dolma https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc Post examples of the various elements of postmodernism en-us 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC 2021-10-08 06:24:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Belief in a dark forces imposing order behind scenes husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296179 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296179 The author draws attention to the artificial nature of the work and reveals the process of its creation husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296189 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296189 The real is replaced with simulations of reality husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296193 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296193 Transforming reality into myths/fables husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296198 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296198 There were, of course, no whales in the aquarium….Instead, the aquarium kept a what 🤬 on display...At times it would remind me of a tiny shriveled palm tree; at other times, a giant ear of corn. In fact, if not for the plaque--WHALE GENITAL: MALE--no one would have taken it to be a whale’s 🤬. More likely an artifact unearthed from the Central Asian desert than a product of the Antarctic Ocean (30). PDF 27 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296209 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296209 Borrowing from and imitation of other works/genres husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296210



]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296210 Joking about death husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296214 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296214 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296215 “I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when I’m sound asleep” (10)/PDF 12]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296215 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296217 She was slumped over the kitchen table, forehead on her arms…”Well then,” I spoke up in a voice not quite my own...As expected, there was no reply. She could have been asleep, could have been crying, could have been dead (17). PDF 15-16]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296217 “Blocked ears are dead ears. I killed my own ears. That is, I consciously cut off the passageway… If your ears don’t need to die, there’s nothing wrong with them not dying” (40). PDF 36 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296225 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296225 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296227 “I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when I’m sound asleep” (10)/PDF 12


]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296227 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296228 Yet no sooner had we thought we’d reach a lasting arrangement than something crumbled...We had been walking ever so peacefully down a long, blind alley. That was our end….Somethings are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. But all in all, this was hardly what you could call a tragedy (26)]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296228 Stories are presented in mixed-up, non-linear timelines husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296230 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296230 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296231 A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22


]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296231 Silly word play and other strange, humorous elements. Objects removed from their normal contexts and reassembled. husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296233 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296233 A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296235 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296235 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296240 Yet no sooner had we thought we’d reach a lasting arrangement than something crumbled...We had been walking ever so peacefully down a long, blind alley. That was our end….Somethings are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. But all in all, this was hardly what you could call a tragedy (26). PDF 23


]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296240 “Blocked ears are dead ears. I killed my own ears. That is, I consciously cut off the passageway… If your ears don’t need to die, there’s nothing wrong with them not dying” (40). PDF 36 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296241 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296241 A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296246 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296246 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296249 There were, of course, no whales in the aquarium….Instead, the aquarium kept a what 🤬 on display...At times it would remind me of a tiny shriveled palm tree; at other times, a giant ear of corn. In fact, if not for the plaque--WHALE GENITAL: MALE--no one would have taken it to be a whale’s 🤬. More likely an artifact unearthed from the Central Asian desert than a product of the Antarctic Ocean (30). PDF 27


]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296249 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296253 Yet no sooner had we thought we’d reach a lasting arrangement than something crumbled...We had been walking ever so peacefully down a long, blind alley. That was our end….Somethings are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. But all in all, this was hardly what you could call a tragedy (26). PDF 23


]]> 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296253 When the waiter departed, leaving us alone again, I blurted out, “I have to see your ears” (36). PDF 33 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296254 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296254 The author is not the guardian of order and truth. Instead, there is no truth or moral right. The author embraces meaninglessness and social disorder. husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296260 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296260 Nor did it matter that she’d been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time...All this was in the realm of possibility. Such things happened often enough...The long and short of it was, it was up to her (25). PDF 22-23 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296261 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296261 To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there’s sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and sex as pasttime (29). PDF 26 husnabels https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296266 2021-10-07 15:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1800296266 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801809560 chapter 8 "now the strange man": it was eleven o'clock when the man came.]]> 2021-10-08 06:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801809560 ademir231 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801810341 The main character is thinking about a whale's 🤬 and sheeps for a long time. Also, he is obsessed with his girlfriend's ears.]]> 2021-10-08 06:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801810341 "C'mon now, there's no honest work anywhere. Just like there's no breathing or honest 🤬." (pg. 58) - Cemal https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801812549 2021-10-08 06:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801812549 "I first became acquainted with her (or rather, her ears)..." (page 33) ademir231 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814653 2021-10-08 06:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814653 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814780 "Tell me, have you ever thought of killing me?" she asked (page: 10)
Yeliz]]> 2021-10-08 06:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814780 "But you know, that's not the real me" she'd say. "I am my ears, my ears are me."(31) https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814833 Aybüke]]> 2021-10-08 06:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814833 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814896 ... "Honest?"
"Honest. Why would I want to kill you?"
"Oh, I guess you're right," she said. "I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when i am sound asleep."
"I am afraid I am not the killer type"
page 10.]]> 2021-10-08 06:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801814896 "So much for metaphors." (pg. 71) - Cemal https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801816366 2021-10-08 06:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801816366 "Who knows? What difference? An ear it is. You've got a week to think about ears." (33) -Beril https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801816466

]]> 2021-10-08 06:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801816466 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801816921 "So for one whole week I ear-gazed. I taped the three giant ears to the wall in front of my desk, and all day, while smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee, clipping my nails, I immersed myself in those ears." (Page 33) -Aybegüm]]> 2021-10-08 06:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801816921 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817313 "I dreamed about a dairy cow. rather nice and small this cow, the type that looked like she'd been through a lot. We passed each other on a big bridge. (...) The cow was carrying an old electronic fan in one hoof, and she asked whether I wouldn't but it from her cheap.]]> 2021-10-08 06:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817313 "But you know, that's not real me," she'd say. "I am my ears and my ears are me." Page 31 last paragraph https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817362 Meaningless implied.

]]> 2021-10-08 06:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817362 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817577 "...a flock of sheep could only be taken for a flock of sheep, the birch wood only for a birch wood, the white clouds only for white clouds." (pg. 74 ]]> 2021-10-08 06:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817577 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817942 The main character counts 32 sheep but when he counts them again, he notices that another sheep appeared and counts them as 33.(pg. 74)]]> 2021-10-08 06:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801817942 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801818531 "I am going to live to be twenty-five" she said, "then die."
In fact, she actually dies in the age of twenty five.
Yeliz]]> 2021-10-08 06:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801818531 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801820920 "There are various reasons why an individual might habitually consume large quantities of alcohol, but they all effectively boil down to the same thing." (pg. 53)]]> 2021-10-08 06:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801820920 "I met her in autumn nine years ago, when I was twenty and she was seventeen." (4) -Beril https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801822255 2021-10-08 06:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801822255 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801823046 I shook my head and closed my eyes. All this was beyond me. It seemed that ever since the ear photo came into my life, things had begun to escape me. (pg. 77) ecesu]]> 2021-10-08 06:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801823046 "... and Yukio Mishima's picture kept flashing on the lounge TV." (pg 9, Yukio Mishima is committing suicide) ademir231 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801825298 2021-10-08 06:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801825298 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801825862 Say we have a concept. It goes without saying that there will be slight exceptions to that norm. Now, over time these exceptions spread like stains until finally they form a separate concept. To which other expectations crop up. (pg. 81) ecesu]]> 2021-10-08 06:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801825862 "I don't have much money" I said. Really, I didnt. "Well then," said the cow, "I might trade it to you for a pair of pliers." https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801826088 Absurdity of offering pliers by a diary cow.
Ceycey]]> 2021-10-08 06:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801826088 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801826469 "I'd grown accustomed to those ears."  page: 34
Yeliz]]> 2021-10-08 06:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801826469 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801826698 The girlfriend knows that there will be an important phone call about sheep.(pg.49 )]]> 2021-10-08 06:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801826698 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801827194 " 'See what I mean?' she said.
She'd become so beautiful, it defied understanding. Never had I feasted my eyes on such beauty. Beauty of a variety I'd never imagine existed. As expansive as the entire ysinverse, yet as dense as a glacier. Unbashedly excessive, yes at the same time pared down to an essence... Several other customers were now turned our way, staring agape at her. The waiter who came over with more coffee couldn't pour properly." (pg. 45)
Emir]]> 2021-10-08 06:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801827194 "I often have bad dreams. Generally, trauma about vending machines eating my change." (8) https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801827437 2021-10-08 06:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801827437 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801828134 "You are only half-living" page: 47
Yeliz]]> 2021-10-08 06:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801828134 "Sixth sense." (pg 70, the girl with ears knows (feels) that something will happen about a sheep and says this to the main character.) ademir231 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801828213 2021-10-08 06:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801828213 "In other words, sandwiched as we are between "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility. (71) - Beril https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801830254 2021-10-08 06:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801830254 "In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility." (pg. 71) - Cemal https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801831185 2021-10-08 06:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801831185 "We can, if we choose, wande aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitious spring breeze." (pg 71) ademir231 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801831585 2021-10-08 06:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801831585 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801832150 "I prayed that there wasn't some kind of symbolism to the dream." page: 78
Yeliz]]> 2021-10-08 06:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801832150 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801835628 The talk about margarine. First he expresses that he hates margarine but then he also tells that margarine is healthy, which is actually not. page 57
Yeliz]]> 2021-10-08 06:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801835628 "But as Nietzsche said, 'The gods furl their flags at boredoom.' Or something like that." (pg 43) ademir231 https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801836325 2021-10-08 06:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801836325 Never had any enlarged part of the human body (genitals included, of course) held such a strong attraction for me. They were like some great whirlpool of fate sucking me in https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801841492 Aybüke]]> 2021-10-08 06:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/husnabels/wjmzffjwqd3rdfrc/wish/1801841492