Isn't this so P?

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 13 06:38:31 CDT 2007


a central feature of nonrational poetry missed by most readers is that each 
disjunction is part of another chain of signifiers disallowing closure. In 
describing Proust he comes up with the following list of strategies: we are 
struck by the fact that all the parts are produced as asymmetrical sections, 
paths that suddenly come to an end, hermetically sealed boxes, noncommunicating 
vessels, watertight com- / partments, in which there are gaps between things 
that are contiguous, gaps that are affirmations, pieces of a puzzle belonging 
not to any one puzzle but to many, pieces assembled by forcing them into a 
certain place where they may or may not belong, their unmatched edges violently 
bent out of shape, forcibly made to fit together, to interlock, with a number of 
pieces always left over (Deleuze & Guattari 42-3).
  -- http://williamwatkin.blogspot.com/2007/07/deleuze-and-guattari-anti-oedipus.html
  william watkin's blog: Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

Also
The strength of Anglo-american literature for Deleuze is rather that it rejects 
the idea of the book as a representation of reality, and all of the adjacent 
problems with the dogmatic image of literature, and presents the book as a 
machine, as something which does things, rather than signifying.
  -- http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deleuze.htm
  Gilles Deleuze [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

(I surfed Deleuze Guattari cuts and flows)

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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