POMO rants (was dfw ... nobel specks)

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Joe Varo writes:
> 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.

In the UK we have a series of `Bluffer's Guides To ________' which,
despite living up to their title, often manage to give a fair intro to
their subject and are usually quite funny to an expert in the relevant
field. The best one I have read was the guide to `Economics' which
contains the best and at the same time jokiest one-line summary of the
subject I have ever encountered. The Literature guide is not bad at
providing an overview of the various Lit-Crit camps and quantifying
the hare (or lack thereof, naturally) in their respective brains.


Andrew Dinn
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To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
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