Reading and writing

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Reading and writing>
>
> 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.
>

Because it's a simple scientific fact. No big thing at all. Paul's words are
very plane.

Otto