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By taking further the celebrated reading of the disaster video clips in DeLillo’s  Zero K  as part of the sales pitch designed by the Convergence to convert nonbelievers, I examine the unforeseen inspiration and comfort afforded by these video clips in light of Mitchell’s notion of ekphrasis. Jeffrey’s ekphrastic efforts enable him to understand the entanglement of the real and the fictive, and more importantly, to see through the fictive and reach the hidden truth – a universal vulnerability that makes people disoriented, if not overwrought. Jeffrey is, without exception, under threat of the looming personal and collective demise. However, instead of pinning all his hope on an elusive future, he makes serious efforts to keep his feet on the ground – the quotidian, and eventually secures himself a firm foothold to inch toward whatever is awaiting.

Ekphrasis and Ways of Seeing in DeLillo’s Zero K