What time is it?

I found the segment in which the thoughts of Lise are explained in bold text was fascinating. Beginning on page 103 everything gets explained, as though some omnipotent entity is watching Lise's life and transcribing the meaning beyond her thoughts and words. The language used by Lise is taken, distorted, chopped, and thrown out of order In class we talked about the schizophrenic breakdown of signifier and signified, how the connection of language is lost. Here we see a total connection of language, each word and phrase is reflective of some act or passing moment lived by Lise; simultaneously language is breaking down the barriers of time and removing the usual flow of cause and connection.

Between the lines there is more meaning and more history than the reader could ever know. This form allows us to see more than the single time Lise is acting in then. We see time, as the narrator explains, as a "simple linear chronology, from one moment ... to the next ...which itself translates into easily recognizable significance, or meaning" (103). Time is allotted meaning by the simple flow of perception then, we see moment to moment and then we understand the meaning of the things that we do. So language then acts as a way to process the meaning of each moment and vocalize our understanding of said meaning. One word leads to the next, another moment with meaning and another flip of 1 to 2 on the clock. In this instance however the narrator breaks time apart, breaks language into snippets and brings meaning out of each word and sentence that is not a piece of the present, but of all time. The narrator explains a multitude of events but not in the order the language was presented originally, it is out of context. The flow of time created by Lise's language is broken and rearranged. So despite the fact that each phrase is connected to a meaning, connected to a context, when taken out of chronological order it breaks down into a series of time independent facts. The narrator is adding meaning by removing meaning.