Happy Memorial Day Weekend ...

[Dave Monroe]

... and I hope no one blew three hours (?!) like I did
watching Pearl Harbor, a film that strangely (at least
in these here United States) makes one impatient not
only to see the U.S. Navy decimated, but also to see
it left at that.  Fans of special effects and/or mass
destruction would do well to skip the hour on either
side of the attack itself.  The attack is almost
incidental to the movie otherwise ...

But have been reading ...

Hacking, Ian.  The Social Construction of What?
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.

... and it's been quite useful, not only in setting
forth the issues at hand, at take, but esp. in sorting
out the various "constructionisms" that have been in
play over, apparently, the last century and a quarter
or so, not to mention some notable recent examples
across a range of disciplines ...

Also got my copy of ...

North, Michael.  Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene
   of the Modern.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Note that 1922 setting for "Mondaugen's Story" in V. 
That same year saw not only the publication of such
modernist masterpieces as  James Joyce's Ulysses, T.S.
Eliot's The Waste-Land and Ludwig Wittgenstein's
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, but was also the
setting for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
(and wrote of the definitive moment of the "Jazz Age,"
"May one offer in exhibit the year 1922!").  Ezra
Pound proposed 1922 as Year 1 of a new, post-Christian
era (precisely because of the writing and publication
of Ulysses--"The Little Review Calendar"), Willa
Cather wrote that "The world broke in two in 1922 or
therabouts" (Not Under Forty), and, while Virgina
Woolf placed the critical date twelve years earler
("in or about December, 1910, human character
changed"--"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"), and D.H.
Lawrence seven ("It was in 1915 the old world
ended"--Kangaroo), only did so in 1922.  For example
...


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