Melville and MiddleWork

MantaRay at aol.com MantaRay at aol.com
Thu Jun 12 02:20:33 CDT 1997


>Ther inage of the card table being discussed now, IMO, is a metafictional
> trope, in which the text evokes an image of its own operational methods
>--here the illusion of *depth* created by a pattern of lines on a
> two-dimensional surface = the book you're reading.  
>Makes sense to me, but--whaddya you think?

I don't think I'm to that part in the book yet. I'm skipping most of the M&D
discussion because it's slow going for me. Which page is it on?

Sorry, Johnny-boy, I'll try to catch up with y'all.

MantaRay

P.S. After a game like tonight, I would love to forget that Michael Jordan is
capitalism's poster-boy and hug him until he sleeps.



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