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Kill<\/i> is a volleyball statistic (so is dig<\/i>… a murderous sport,
\nindeed).  And I’m crouched in my noisy office today, hiding out from the
\npoundacious, bangtastic bongo and hoot that is intercollegiate men’s volleyball. 
\nBalls careen off the uninsulated walls; the splat of every hard spike is drowned
\nby a basal oooh-aaah.  And three matches are playing out within ear shot. 
\nGood thing I’ve got terrific work-study students to relieve me from being more
\nproximate to the events, as in at<\/i> the courtside.<\/p>\n

After seeing
\n
\nNon Sequitur<\/a> this morning, I’ve been having a look at human and animal
\nimage-dispositions at the following web sites:
\nNature<\/a> |
\nWild America<\/a> (Mungry:
\nthe speculatin’ critter in the upper left! Will he eat the berry?) |
\nCBS’s Survivor Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But then I got caught up in comparing the alterations to the page designs
\nfrom Borneo to All Stars.  The banner graphics (the program’s logos, if you
\nwill) tell a story, perhaps even tapping into grand narrative of colonialism or
\nsomething like it.  All of this could be the disturbing side-effect of too
\nmuch coffee this morning, a McDonald’s sandwich turning a pirouette in my tummy
\nor the slap-racket in my percussion-tank office, but I have time to play
\naround–so that’s what I’m doing.  Here are the graphic insignia,
\nsequentially ordered, from the Survivor series.<\/p>\n


\n\"1<\/a>\"2<\/a>\"3<\/a>\"4<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\"5<\/a>\"6<\/a>\"7<\/a>\"8<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s some of what I see.  Borneo: no humans, no
\nanimals, light colors, watery lower panel.  Australian Outback: a
\ndarkening, a roo in the rising sun, bouncing left, heat waves in lower panel.
\nAfrica: a giraffe following the roo’s path, scraggly acacias on each side,
\ngrassy lower panel.  Marquesas: jutted island, some kind of Tahitian mask
\n(civilization?), watery lower panel. Thailand: temples surrounding a decorated
\nelephant, red lower panel.  Amazon: gigantic serpent and a toucan, serpent
\nintegrated into lower panel. Pearl Islands: ship silhouette, skulls, gold coins
\npiled thick in the lower panel. All-Stars: human form, torch-bearing, generic
\nnatural landscape in the background. What do you notice?<\/p>\n

When I began thinking about these panels as a narrative
\nsequence, while also thinking about groovy assignments for the introduction to
\nhumanities class I teach, I also thought about Perry Miller’s Errand Into the
\nWilderness<\/i> (which I haven’t completely read in the strict sense of page by
\npage, word by word; know him for some of the sensational rhetoric stuff). 
\nFound a
\n
\nweb site<\/a> from CU-Denver that summarizes Miller’s central theme in Errand<\/i>
\nthus:<\/p>\n

\n "The End of the World" (217-39)<\/b> William and Mary
\n Quarterly<\/i> 8.2 (April 1951): 171-91.
\n In this concluding "piece," Miller sums up his thesis:
\n "Can an errand, even an errand into the wilderness, be run indefinitely? To
\n this question, it seems, Americans must constantly revert…. Can a culture,
\n which chances to embody itself in a nation, push itself to such remorseless
\n exertion without ever learning whether it has been sent on its business at
\n some incomprehensible behest, or is obligated to discover a meaning for its
\n dynamism in the very act of running?<\/i> … In the civilizations that emerged
\n out of the primordial wilderness of Europe, this assurance solidified into the
\n Christian eschatology; in that form it was brought to America, most
\n energetically by the Puritans. Officially the doctrine of an end to the world
\n has, of course, been professed by every denomination within the country, even
\n when, as lately, some have striven to interpret it metaphorically. What
\n will America do – what can America do – with an implacable prophecy that there
\n is a point in time beyond which the very concept of a future becomes
\n meaningless?<\/i> Protestant America, as well as Catholic, has an implicit
\n commitment to this event. What then happens to the errand?<\/i>" (217)
\n [emphases mine]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t have time to brush out the kinks or to trick around with
\nmuch more today.  Weather’s too nice outside to keep puzzling over whether
\nthe grand narrative loosely suggested by the graphic sequence answers or somehow
\nengages Miller’s questions, and this crummy tournament is winding to a
\nfinish–last matches start at 2:00 p.m.  There seems an interesting way of
\nreading this sequence of images (and their telling, and the series of programs
\nitself, perhaps) through Miller’s notion that Christian civ. must foretell a
\nmaterial end whose details are unknown and that the promise of wilderness’ end,
\nof the cessation of travails and conquest, compel, in the purveyors of dominant
\nculture continuation, an attraction to rhetorical\/artistic refashionings of the
\ngrand narrative of conquest–as redesigned through an increasingly
\nhuman-centered tale.   <\/p>\n

In simple terms, and because I fear that none of this makes
\nsense, here’s what I mean to suggest is the answer to Perry’s question, "What
\nhappens to the errand?". My answer:  Survivor<\/i>.  Quite a ramble
\nspun out of a funny non sequitur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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