Monday silliness

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     mikebailey:
     James Wood's mention of Fielding's chapter headings
     ("in which such & such") which A.A. Milne also uses...
     . . . .(somebody's probably already done this better)

You Betcha!!!

              Everything in our bildopedic culture, in our 
              politics of the encyclopedic, in our 
              telecommunications of all genres, in our 
              telemathicometaphysical archives . . . 
              everything is constructed on the protocolary 
              charter of an axiom, that could be 
              demonstrated, displayed on a large carte, 
              a post card of course, since it is so simple, 
              elementary, a brief, fearful stereotyping.

     If you catch the heavy irony here--- the culture of "communication" 
     rests on the fib that signifiers can make their way from one party to 
     another with no fading or twisting of informational content---you will 
     see why Pooh reduces the standard literary notion of rescue (that is 
     to say, salvation) to a self-mailed postcard consisting of a timid 
     little pig. Having a wonderful time, wish you were oink oink oink. 

Postmodern Pooh, Frederick Crews, pg 12