Leggo my Pomo

[Unknown User]

still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made wrote:
  But postmodernism is not nearly as original
> in making such observations as it would like to think of itself as being. My
> fiancee has pointed out that many "pomo" ideas/attitudes are at least as old
> as the Book of Ecclesiastes.  "There is nothing new under the sun..."
> 

however, i do not belive that 'postmodernist writers' make any claim to
originality (on the contrary, the 'consensus' view seems to be that
there is no original, hence no originality). it's all about shuffling,
recasting, tweaking-- another attempt (series of attempts) to 'make it
new.'
ray