Help, please

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Glenn Scheper
<glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Another way of looking at delirium might begin with the word's etymology - from
> the Latin, de lira, meaning "out of the furrow." The word delirium can then
> refer, as the novelist and art critic William S. Wilson has pointed out, to a
> faulty plowing in which the plow pulls out of the furrow. Equally, in a literary
> context, where rational thought proceeds in a line furrowed with opposites, to
> be delirious can mean to go outside oppositional thinking. A plow pulls out of
> the furrow, where rooted plants are meant to grow in straight lines. That's one
> way of transitioning from striated to smooth space, in Deleuze's vocabulary.
> Outside ond over the furrow, untended vegetation is likely to be rhizomatic. And
> so is narrative when it resists the linearity of sentences on a page and tries
> to get outside the furrowed oppositions and rootedness of rational thought.
>  -- http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/machinic
>  The Medial Turn - Joseph Tabbi

Damn, I wish I'd've, uh, cammed out that furrow.  Thanks, Glenn.  A good one ...