French theory

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> that sounds like a French theory thing...

Tore Rye Andersen confirmed and quantified:

> 
> http://www.amazon.co
>m/Difference-Repetition-Gilles-Deleuze/dp/0231081596/ref=sr_1_3/002-1671899-5596848?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182496712&sr=8-3

the very 1st sentence goes like this:
"Indifference has two aspects: the undifferenciated abyss, the black nothingness, the indeterminate animal in which everything is dissolved - 
but also the white nothingness, the once more calm surface upon which float unconnected determinations like scattered members: a head 
without a neck, an arm without a shoulder, eyes without brows."

weepers! and people say Pynchon is tough going sometimes...

one Amazon reviewer said to read Delanda's _Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy_ to prepare to read Deleuze...
and a reviewer of Delanda said maybe read Protevi's _Political Physics_ to lay the groundwork to read Delanda...

good project for a rainy day...
 could spend an afternoon on that 1st sentence (-;