paranoia: Hollander

wood jim jim33wood at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 15 08:24:54 CDT 2001


--- "calbert at hslboxmaster.com"
<calbert at hslboxmaster.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> My inability to accurately convey "meaning" led many
> of my college profs to recommend a curriculum
> focusing on vocational skills. Apparently I still
> tote that albatross......

http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-yearbook/97_docs/marshall.html

There is no room for an albatross on me, what
with mixed metaphor and confused sytax
dangling like modifiers and gaudy gold 
chains while I wrap and rap enigmas inside
bad puns and L1/L2/L3 switchings. 



> 
> I recommended, enthusiastically, the Hollander
> article in the context of the concept of
> "desenheredado"...with all due respect to Mr. Jim
> and MalignD I continue to do so.
> 
> paranoia, in my view, gets far too much play from
> "critics".I wonder if ultimately, it need assume any
> greater role in the works than other belief
> "structures", like causality, or synchronicity. As
> you may have noticed, I don't think I even used the
> term once, while slaying herds of bandwidth this
> week. But I digress....
> 
> I continue to recommend the article as a source for
> biographical "context" rather than the minutia many
> here make an effort to eschew as a matter of
> reverence. Though my grasp of the available
> "critical" material is not exhaustive - I have yet
> to come across the details, even in hints, from
> other sources.......FOr those, like myself, who lack
> either the industry or skill to read de Nerval's
> poem, the Hollander article puts that concept in a 
> fascinating and useful perspective, and I urge
> others to at least take a look.
> 
> 
> love,
> cfa
> 
>
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