Fiction vs History?

Ian Scuffling scuffling at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 25 17:03:09 CDT 2004


It seems to me that texts are extraordinarily static and finite, more so
than anything else but the other plastic arts.  Sure, you won't ever cross
the same stream twice, but in this case, that's you, not the stream.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy --
Nietzsche.  So...
 
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Henry M(u)
 
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on 26/10/04 2:02 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

> No matter how many times you
> say it you cannot reduce the cosmos to text.

That is precisely what all those positivist historians in Europe said they
were doing back in the nineteenth century ("simply to show how it really
was" was their mantra).

The cosmos is indeed a text which we read. Different people read it
differently.

best






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