It makes the same noises it made in the seventeenth century along with all the noises that have evolved since then. But I don't mind the noise. The noise energizes me. The important thing is that it's there. The noise itself suggests the presence of other sorts of dwellers.
Ghosts and invisible energies populate the city and penetrate enclosed places. It could be said that noise is the past, the tradition in memory, but also thought in motion. Within its guts are formed the voices of the future, the information that has not yet diced new binaries. It is embodied by his attraction to the details that make up the beetle. Simultaneously, he is attracted to thinking in terms of technological transcendence. It would be short sighted to limit the representation of noise as an undesirable source of either awareness or forgetfulness.
Being multiplicity, noise can reveal a soothing atmosphere. Wright is correct to consider history, memory and the body the main components of such ache. Serres refers here to the noise of crowds, such as rugby crowds. Even if the noise made in a stadium is different from that made in traffic, the spirit of the all-encompassing noise is still there and plays an important role in reviving the atmosphere of community.
Even if the primitive noise invokes violence, it is the sort of violence that Eric feels comfortable around because it has a purpose. Therefore, noise is not only an external consequence of an accumulation of random sounds. Living itself implies being exposed to a noise that Eric does not only hear, but which he feels in space. In the novel, one of the numerous examples of this is the Cosmopolis itself.
Eric meets various people with various backgrounds and functions in one day and in one city. As he is about to die, Eric thinks of most of the people he had met earlier in the day. He was thinking of the bodyguard with… the hard squat Slavic name, Danko…He was thinking of the Sikh with the missing finger, the driver he'd glimpsed when he shared a taxi with Elise…He was thinking of Ibrahim Hamadou, his own driver, tortured for politics or religion or clan hatreds…He was even thinking of Andre Petrescu, the pastry assassin… Finally he thought of the burning man and imagined himself back at the scene, in Times Square… Cosmopolis By the end of the day, Eric is filled with the echoes of remembrance.
The reason for this last gesture is not a fear of facing death. For him, the end of his body does not imply the end of his being. Rather, Eric closes his eyes to better listen to one voice among many, screaming silently in the Cosmopolis.
This voice is his own, guiding him to the underground: the noise in silence. References DeLillo, Don. London, Picador, Dewey, Joseph. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, Eliot, T. Collected Poems: The books in the series all follow the same five-part structure: a short biography of the novelist; a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas; a summary of how the novel was received when it was first published; a summary of the novel's standing today, including any film or television adaptations; and a helpful list of discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and useful websites.
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