On Interruptions, Part 2

After detailing a whole mess of things in Part 1, I started to wonder where I can go from there. I'm not entirely dismissing the Austin and Derrida readings, I'm just currently not able to confidently apply them to what we are talking about. As I remember Tony saying, we will never be 'done' with those works. Right now I think they're interrupting, as I established in Part Uno. So now that I've spent all my time talking about what we've been interrupted with, I guess I should touch on the intended subject (of course, anything in class or vaguely related to our topics is fair game, even if it's about being interrupted from talking about said fair game. That's also fair game. Allow me to scoop my brains from off the floor and put them back into my head).

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper (hello, word count).

From the fraction of the book I have read, I can't predict how things will change in the coming pages, but right now I don't think the interruptions of Kreisler's story are parasitic at all. They are certainly interruptions, but seem to be nothing but sheer benefit to understanding our dapper Tomcat. Kreisler's pages define additional fragments of Murr's world which makes the entire piece work as a single story. This is a symbiotic relationship, not parasitic. If you look at Tomcat Murr as John Hurt's character in "Alien", then the Alien Johannes Kreisler is secretly building and developing within. However, it doesn't take away from any of the narrative Murr has already written. Kreisler doesn't erupt from the belly and kill or injure the host. After the Kreisler pieces, Murr's text is completed where last left off.

So it's less of this:

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And more like this:

So that Kreisler is hitching a ride on Murr's underbelly, where he will help Murr by eating his ticks (who are actual parasites!)

That's all I've been pondering as of late.