MDDM World-as-text

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: MDDM World-as-text


> --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > On the Premises of Postmodernism
> >
> > "Tonight he feels the potency of every word:
> > words are only an eye-twitch away from
> > the things they stand for." (GR 100)
> >
>
> That's a small but significant gap. Words are not the
> things they stand for, that's the distinction Pynchon
> makes here.
>
>
> =====
> <www.pynchonoid.blogspot.com>
>

Right, it's the Saussuran difference between signifier and signified he's
referring to.

btw, your blog sends cookies?

Otto

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