Reading Response 10/15

In the readings The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and K. Silem Mohammed’s Excessivism, both readings are from a first person narrative point of view and the writings of both authors are an autobiography, where the readers are put through their writer’s own personal experience. In both writings there seem to be a recurring theme where a word is written throughout the whole reading. In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol chapter 7 “time” was the recurring theme, the word “time” also recurred throughout the autobiography. Warhol explained the correlation between time and age, she mentions:

Some people decide to be old and then they do exactly what old people are supposed to do. But when they were twenty years old they were doing what twenty-years-olds are supposed to do. And then there are those other people who look twenty all their lives. It’s thrilling to see movie stars – since they’re more involved in that than most people who have worked on their beauty, who still have all their energy because they’re still working with their young selves. (110)

Warhol explained how time and age intertwine, she gives an example on how time affects the process of their development including the way someone look, but she also regarded that everyone ages differently, “there are others who looked twenty their whole life.” She gave many examples on how time plays a role in a lifetime, just like this example she gave many small things that end up playing a huge role when it comes to time.

            Just like how Warhol chapter 10 had a recurring theme of "time" she had the recurring theme of “space.” In which she explained it in two different ways, one is explained a physical space, and space as in distancing one’s self from others. Warhol’s poem, reminds me of Fast Speaking Woman by Maria Sabina, despite the fact that each lines doesn't sound the same, but there's a recurring word of "time."

            Silem on the other hand also used a recurring theme, on his poem Spooked for David Larsen, Silem just like Warhol’s theme with time, he used the word spooky multiple times in the poem to emphasize in a sarcastic way the "spooky" things going on during Halloween. In another Silem’s poem, Cosmic Deer Head Freak Out, the word disembodied were also repeated do add gruesome atmosphere into the poem.