Even Cathy Berberian knows...she can't sing
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sat Sep 11 11:47:06 CDT 2010
On Sep 11, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:
> . . . My point, which is already old and trite so I'll
> shut up on it after this, is that "Postmodernism" cannot exist,
> because the word itself refers to something that has not yet happened,
> something after the current time, which is modern. No style of
> architecture, no literary or philosophical trends, and no scientific
> investigative procedures fit the category. There just is no such
> thing. Pynchon is a contemporary writer, not a future one. Unless he's
> really one of his own characters from AtD, in which case I suppose he
> is plagiarizing works he is going to write when he actually exists at
> some period in the future. . .
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