Uncomfortable TV

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Fri Jul 12 07:42:16 CDT 1996



On Thu, 11 Jul 1996 matthew.percy at utoronto.ca wrote:

> Pynchon seems to stress 
> that we use "their" tools/objects for "our" purposes (which is also a 
> fairly accurate description of how his prose style works, borrowing from 
> the popular and re-imagining it in a more literary form).

This sounds a bit like the "bricolage" of Derrida & Co., i.e. utilizing 
whatever is at hand to subvert [a text].

Joe





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