Maas o menos

[Andrew Dinn]

Diana York Blaine writes:

> May I point out the suitably Pynchonian (not to mention Foucauldian)
> difficulty y'all are having in finding out the "true" origin of
> Maas?  Even the carbon-unit bearing that name in Real Landia cannot (it's
> ok Steve, we feel your pain.)  Reminds me alot of Oedipa's search for the
> source of the Courier's Tragedy in CoL49 itself. Strike another blow
> for post-structuralism--all we can know is language and we cannot even
> know that.  (Even, or perhaps especially, those of us with edu.'s)

I don't want to speak for anyone else on the list but I would like to
publicly dissociate myself from the epistemological narrow-mindedness
exhibited in Diana's post-structuralist credo, not to mention the
aggressiveness of her chosen phrasing.

(Or as Popeye might put it `I knows what I knows')


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.