The Author as Science Guy

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed Feb 19 10:35:17 CST 2003


On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 05:02, P. Chevalier wrote:
> Thanks anyway... But it doesn't sound so Proustian, in fact... It just 
> sound French. The same way as you all guys sound pynchonian to me... 

Actually I MEANT to say PYNCHONIAN--with all those suspension marks (. .
. ), which the other P seldom uses. 

But seriously I think I now see what your earlier post was calling for.
Would be nice to do if possible. 




That's 
> what would made interesting a cross-linguistical debate about 
> post-modernism, qui n'est autre, pour moi (et suivant en cela l'ami 
> Deleuze, que je devine familier de ces pages...) qu'une manière de faire 
> arriver une polyphonie dans le discours sur le monde, fût-ce au prix du 
> Chaos... And doesn't polyphony start when different voices start singing 
> different melodies, voire different languages?

Think I get it.

P.





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