Counter theme: The hunch.
1)what is Bella? If is clear she is not a person as such. No one, no he prospective father in law (who attempted to marry her off without knowing her,) or her family, who put up with her endless whims and bullying of her younger sister or yet Roksemith, the mysteries mutual friend treat her as a person. They treat her as if she was a mere expressive doll. A head of hair, and an expressive set of shoulder. A Beauty or ornament for whom arranging hair is work, and whose acid language is good enough.
2) But then the mystery deepens when one considers the nature f her father. The man without a real name, and the man without a real series of facial expressions. He is merely a big cherub, a little body who appears to grow up, and is the but of the neighbourhood. Why? Because he lacks the ability to assert his identity.
3) He is a cherub. A great friendly fact, designed to make one like him. Designed to inspire one with feeling of wistful pity.
4)The Cherubs motif, the flying naked fat child, in a sense more than a whimsy. It is a chipper. Cherubs expresses in what they do, in the naked body, an wings, they convey series of meaning. Cherub is one o the numerous agencies which turn a body into a face.
5) That is convey something of the power other facial expression within the mechanics of having a body. It poses, it acts, it loos innocent, it… The list I not endless. On the contrary there are a relatively proscribed number of things for such cherub to effectively do.
6)They are therefore an expression, which everyone can look upon, and take up, for their own convinces. They are not of course in themselves engaging. Many loath the cherub, and they are too passive to court others.
7)They are rather than which others take up as kind of emotional porn. The element one can build into ones own mind without worrying to much about what it is or what it does. It is a cherub, and therefore there for ones own convince.
8)The cherubic he annexed expression, the naked expression, designed for another pleasure and use.
9)Not wonder that all too modern cherubs Rumpty or Reginald Wilfler has not even a name to call his own. A Amiable man pitched at other convince., mad perpetually useful for others, as the means in which they express something: The badge they wear (or rejects), the motif to say a thing about them.
10)He is an ornamental clerk in the Veneering, a cog in the business house, and therefore always at the convenience of others.
11)Life a the motif, the allegory or another, the element they assume as there for their delight or power, is still a life, if a weird one.
12)However who is Bella. She is described less as a face and more as an expression. She, like her fathers an expressive body or perhaps shoulders. It is this power, this expression with this immediate feeling of sympathy and antipathy that form here dominant nature.
13) As a person she is of course impossible. Capricious and greedy, if poor.
14)As an expression/ She is unsurpassed
15) Here she is really other than her father. H is the motif which is free for other to take (and the landlord takes his money,).She y contrast is the legs of an expression. That is the battering ram, which forces another to take up what is expressed in a face or a set of shoulder and do something with it.
16)To understand such a move however one needs to remember two other important aspect of the expression. the expression always needs a frame to express in. I this that which takes up a frame a body ad makes it strike an angle to express something. It is that which is always saying other than it I therefore.
17)All of life of course lives in this others (and Deleuze and Guttari noticed. It is this ability to take a corpse and render it expressive. It is his ability of a body to be a body and…
18) To express as a body is therefore o be caught up in doubling up of the body. One says a thing, and yet the things cannot be said. One gives it a meaning and yet what that meaning is, and why it is cannot be true as such. A Body shrugs, but it merely shakes its shoulders, the shrug is elsewhere.
19)I is therefore caught up in the double speak of Mrs Wilfer. The Women who always says two quite distinct things. She condemns or attacks expresses contempt or connivance and then in the same breath back pedals and agrees wither husband. He is right be custom as a body is mere flesh by custom.
20) A fitting contradiction because of course her body language in itself reverse this double speak. Se might she is humble and meek, but never looks it.
21) Bodies and expressions are different things: and bodies say different things towards: the Mrs Wilfer case.
22) But then an expression is nothing without some poor and slightly confused little puss working out the meanings of it all. This in the Wilfer house in the put upon younger sister Lavinia. A girl who Bella bullies and whose mother makes work. A yet who seems not to resent it, but rather spends her life wondering what is being said and what is going on.
23)In such a state she is no doubt an irritant. She wonders, and dos so allowed. She is therefore often wrong, often merely copying what us said around here, sometimes previous. She is a younger child, absolutely younger child, who takes on the mannerism other elders to discover what they mean, and what they feel like.
24) She I to then stuck in memory interpreting. On the contrary she understands hat to express by the body and to understand that expression is at both point physical. One appears another to get their meaning.
25) However this is no exact science. One cannot produce all meaning this way. one merely opens ones eyes to series of questions?
26)And Bella?
27)Bella clearly has the oddity of the expression, the looking of eye that Rokesmith, the mystery, will not with her. The mutuality, the element, to oddity that passes between the stiff shoulder’s of Mrs Wilfer, and the wondering gaze of Lavina, and is never really owned by anyone.
28) After all who can own such expressions? Where are they? In the actor who inspires them. Maybe, but they might always be saying something different from them.
29) or are they in the mind you reads them. Sometimes But that reading is always complex n never simply owned. The expressive can be incomprehensible. All it needs t say is that here is more than meets the eye and we are away.
30)Where the, what then is it?
31)But the high shoulders and pretty hair of the nineteen year Bella’s girl how is not allowed to own anything (she has been given in marriage to a man now dead). A girl locked in poverty and yet who dream for something else.
32) A girl whose life I is to sing into other minds and capture them. that is to register across their minds, and require that they see things a different a new way.
33)She is right then to suggest that she is poses to Rokesmith aka Handford aka Harmon. He is he man whose mystery always lies elsewhere. Te man who is tumbling into a mystery, and very slowly forcing others to accept a thing. The model into which a, life is being poured.
34) Bella by contrast is the arrogant stamp of foot which immediately composes a life pitched between individuals.
35)She is of course mysteries. But the mystery is the fact that at any occasion something is always ensuring there is more going on that meets the eye. There is always more to say. There is always extra oddities, and things unknown.
36)Or perhaps better there are things that cannot be said, but that one wishes were to be said. Elements one cannot say, feeling one cannot quite trust oneself to resolve.\ not because they are violent or nasty or because one is ashamed of them, but rather because one knows if they are resolves one will become caught up in emotional journeys one does not want to go upon.
37) Or perhaps that one only wants to go upon in fantasy or elsewhere or in another time or with someone lose.
38) The world ripples with this extra. The addition (virtual Deleuze of course calls them) journeys of the mind. The elements which one want to leave open, and wants to leave between.\ the expressive creative shoulders of Bella in the mind of Harmon.
39)The though of an expressing what…
40)that is the thought in the mind of the thinker that there is more In those shoulders than meets the eye, that there is something as yet unresolved. Something which cannot be said. Something which if it were said yet would ruin everything. Ad Harmon would ruin everything if he simply said who owe was. The expression is the addition of the secret shouted out, but then left secret. The extra, the promise.
41)\ and yet of course that promise is so difficult. I might very well be the case hat this and only this time is the time that the promise must be developed. Maybe one needs it now. Maybe one knowledge that there is something extra ought to lead one on to explore it.
42) It is one of the problems with the flirt that they move on. Sometimes therefore one needs to act of their additional promise.\ One the other hand there might be nothing in those shoulders, or their might be something other than one thought. There might really be no heart or no mind. There might be nothing worth having.
43)There might be wishful thinking.
44) The expression the knowledge that somewhere anywhere there is more to this than meets he eye is therefore irresolvable. Is it in me or you? Is it bout here or there? then or now? I places the mind, it captures the minding a web of perpetual wonder and oddity (no wonder Lavina always wonders).
45)Bella is therefore that weirdest between, as it is not clear who or what she is between. Where she it at odds with.
46)Oh she is caught up competing in herself. She does not know what she is doing or where she is expressing. A good expression is always ambivalent in this way. it is an expression because it is open ended. Because it is saying many things. If it were simply then it would merely be a part of something else, a part of the world of worlds and boring meaning.
47)The expression the high shoulders power lies then in its ability to be in conflict, to say many things, and Bella feeling hat conflict.
48)\ But them of course so does every one else. Or better they feel its result. The impossibility of resolving were there a thought or a feeling is their own or belong to Bella or to someone else.
49) This unresolved is not accidental. Not is it merely an error. It is rather the necessary condition of the mutual between. it must pose itself as a problem which runs across people, and troubles them. Which hereby makes sure a people are odd, an unable to think their own nature properly and with de caution or care.
50)It is therefore than element which if one resolves one changes. To challenge to attempt to resolve ort draw clear boundaries s to make the problem resolve otherwise than it was. It is not to clear they air, for much as to convert the problem, to resolve it is to force it into someone or something. A force which had its place, but is an act of creation at odds with the initial set up.
51) Bella therefore poses contractions and problems as a part of her state. That is the message and the medium. The element which is not their in me or you but must be somewhere.
52)The fury of the face which is a mask and which is a meaning, and that meaning is or is not about a me, and will not resolve unless it is forced to, and which if it does resolve might be rather nasty and cheap.
53)The dream it offer eh dream of having an element a minute speck of oneself beyond ones own nature, is often to be preferred to the mere resolution of that dream.
54)Bella is then the agony and the ecstasy f element beyond our control, elements in our mind belong to something else (and thought is another person or an aspect of that other).
55)A Point of creation, and a part of pain.