grgr: overcoming of metaphysics

Muchasmasgracias at cs.com Muchasmasgracias at cs.com
Sat Jul 1 09:33:24 CDT 2000


pmackin at clark.net writes:

<< Perhaps I could have said rational thinking, or logical thinking. This
 would still include what Derrida does. Would it always include what
 Pynchon does? >>

Logic is logocentric?  Well sure!  And it includes Derrida to the extent that 
he fiddles with performatives and doesn't theorize/explain.  I think 
Pynchon's very into those eddies and details which run against the logical 
grain (all that senseless, illogical ornamentation!)



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