Reading and writing

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Nightingale" <isread at btopenworld.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: Reading and writing


> All writing is indeed representation, which means all writing is
> fictional, ie a construct. It also means all writing revisits that which
> is absent, the real world, and as representation seeks to stand in for
> the absent world. 
>

Absolutely correct and well said. I hear Saussure and Derrida in this.

Otto