Paul is De Man

[Paul Mackin]

Keith McMullen wrote:

> God that Mackin can deconstruct like no other.

And he's never been a Nazi . . . .

>
> On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
> Some information about "The Kenosha Kid" story I need to impart is 
> that this particular Kenosha Kid takes  his name not from the Kenosha 
> of Wisconsin but rather from "the Kenosha Pass" in the Colorado 
> Rockies.  One could easily make quite of bit out of this vis-a-vis the 
> Pynchon novel. A pass is an interface and the idea of interface is 
> very prominent in Part I--Beyond the Zero.  A mountain pass is an 
> interface between two sides of a mountain and the passes one drives or 
> hikes through in the Rockies form the interface par excellence of 
> American geography--that is, the North/South line of which the Rockies 
> are a part is the American Continental Divide, from one side or the 
> other of which (in the case of the Rockies) water flows East into the 
> Mississippi River or West into the Pacific Ocean.
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