POMO rants (was dfw ... nobel specks)

[Tom Stanton]

>
>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.
>Sometimes I find decon utterly fascinating...at others I have to wonder at
>the point of it all.

What's needed is a "Derrida for Dummies" so that those of us not in
the mainstream of academic criticism might get a grasp. A few years
ago in rec.arts.books I made the very foolish request that someone
encapsulate the premise of decon & got flamed for weeks thereafter
on the basis that unless I was willing to devote my life to the study,
I would never understand a summary ...