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I keep trying to see if there’s a connection between Johnny’s crazy stories and The Navidson narrative, but often the links are often easy to miss.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s just a single word or concept like “photograph” or “ghost.”<\/p>\n
For example, in footnote on page 37, Truant talks about “the picture printed in the newspaper” of his father in a tractor-trailer accident.\u00a0 On the same page, the Navidson criticism discusses the photograph on Billy Reston’s wall from when he tried to outrun a falling high voltage wire and failed. \u00a0Both photographs capture moments of extreme tragedy: \u00a0death on one hand and paralysis on the other.\u00a0 Both images resonate strong emotional value despite being only 2D images of the events.\u00a0 What comparison is being made by juxtaposing these two photographs?\u00a0 There’s also the obvious link between photography and Navidson, the Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.\u00a0 On page 22, the criticism explains that Navidson was devoted to photography because “it gave permanence to moments that were often so fleeting.”\u00a0 I see these connections, yet I can’t really explain why they were put there.<\/p>\n
Another example is Truant’s footnote 164, which starts on page 128.\u00a0 Truant’s footnote was added to a line in the Navidson criticism about Jed’s knocking, which was described as drumbeats using the word “tattoos.”\u00a0 In his footnote, Truant also describes the difference between the tattoos he draws and the many scars he has on his body.\u00a0\u00a0 In that same footnote, Truant also tells a story about when he met a ghost in his boarding school dining hall.\u00a0 When the Navidson criticism starts up again on page 134, it also mentions ghosts:\u00a0 “Perhaps here is a good a place as any to consider some of the ghosts haunting The Navidson Record<\/em>.”\u00a0 By convention, footnotes are supposed to draw from the text, but it almost seems like Truant’s footnotes actually shape<\/em> the text.<\/p>\n All of this raises the question:\u00a0 whose text is this?\u00a0 Since Truant supposedly compiled this text from the bits and fragments of material he found in Zampano’s apartment, he could have arranged this compilation in whatever way he wanted.\u00a0 I don’t know if I’d say this is Truant’s text, but he does have a lot of control over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I keep trying to see if there’s a connection between Johnny’s crazy stories and The Navidson narrative, but often the links are often easy to miss.\u00a0 Sometimes it’s just a single word or concept like “photograph” or “ghost.” For example, in footnote on page 37, Truant talks about “the picture printed in the newspaper” of … Continue reading Week #4 \u2013 Parallels between Truant\u2019s footnotes and the Navidson narrative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}