pax pynchonia (was: Germany (was Re: 1945))

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

terrance schrieb:

> Indeed. I take responsibility for the much of the confusion
> about terms--"gnosticism", "Gnosticism", "existential
> gnosticism", "literary gnosticism"--here. Kai is quite right
> to complain. As Boas once said, Boas, a "Colombian" if I
> remember right, once said,  that ANY language is capable of
> generating the terms to cover new ideas, when the need
> occurs. Unfortunately, my conviction, my pedagogical
> presumption (that tendency) was compromised and compromised
> by my own method, my subversive strategies, my attempts at
> humor to humor. I could make excuses: this cybermedium, this
> distant and diverse audience, language/cultural diversity,
> these paradoxical and contradictory texts, these
> indeterminacy, but without these, I would have no business
> here. 

           
          being in general not of the rancorous kind, i jump, as we like to say 
          here, across my shadow and recall my childish 
          "illneverdiscusswithyouagain"-announcement. there are still feelings 
          of pain and pig-headedness [this word i did not know before looking 
          up "trotz" in the dictionary; here we compare the feeling to the 
          jackass...]. "he has hurt me so often and i can afford not to talk to 
          him" ... perhaps i could, but for what? & then my own volley return, 
          which had also to do with the overall list situation which has in the 
          meantime changed again quite a bit, was, well, a little harder than 
          necessary. if your stuff would really be so stupid, i probably 
          wouldn't care at all, would i? human comedy and everything ...

 yours in discourse: kai