POMO rants (was dfw ... nobel specks)

[Meg Larson]

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| From: Joe Varo <vjvaro at erie.net>
| To: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
| Subject: Re: POMO rants (was dfw ... nobel specks)
| Date: Friday, May 23, 1997 8:15 AM
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| On Thu, 22 May 1997 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:
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| > Good spirited sharing of ideas--just what the list excels at!! 
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Joe conspires: 
| By the way...does anyone else enjoy these "_____ for Beginners" books?
| Even if it's subject is something you know quite well, they're really
| rather entertaining.  I'm anxiously waiting for them to release their
| "Lacan for Beginners", someone upon whom I've yet to get any kind of
| grasp.

|I reply:
The guy who wrote _Derrida for Beginners_, forgot his name at the moment,
has another book out, or coming out soon, titled _Postmodernism for
Beginners_.   I was on the Derrida listserv for a while--without a doubt
one of the most boring lists available.  
Three months of defining iterability--ugh.

| Sometimes I find decon utterly fascinating...at others I have to wonder
at
| the point of it all.
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I'm with you, Joe; sometimes I think I've got it, and other times all I can
think is HUH???  In my mind, an important thing to keep in mind is that
decon is not destruct, even if it seems that way.
   
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