Reading and writing

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> ----- 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

I can hear them too but they seem to be mumbling under some sort of
collective Bakhtin-cultural mustache. 

Please, Otto, tell us poor Molly Bloomers, in plane words,  please,  why
this is absolutely correct or how it makes sense to you.