MDDM Ch. 69 World-as-text

[David Morris]

Well of course you are both correct here, but then you both knew that 
already.  Close our eyes and the "text" proves it continues on without you, 
but you don't need a god-story for the world to exist beyound your cornea 
either.

David Morris

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>on 10/8/02 3:14 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > The world is pre-textual and post-textual, even in these postmodern 
>times.
>
>I disagree. Human perception of the world is always textual and, thus, "il 
>n'y a pas de hors-texte". Even if you believe in "God", a "god", or "gods", 
>then the world is conceived as the text or Text of Creation or an act of 
>creation. Variations on this idea are repeated often enough in Pynchon's 
>work, as is the companion notion of the text as a world (cf. Oedipa writing 
>"*shall I project a world?*").
>

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