Is the uncertainty principle culturally deranging?

[Madeleine Maudlin]

That's what I was realizing the other day, that the history of publishing
is rife with self-publishing.

Nietzsche did.  (But *not* with AuthorHouse.)  Plato owned a big publishing
house, I forget the name.  And John Stuart Mill, on a half a pint of shandy
was particularly ill.

Speaking of Derrida and physics, Foucault's Pendulum has a long bit about
self-publishing.  Not in a very favorable light, quite horrible, though
funny and entertaining as all get out.


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

>  On 8/2/2012 11:17 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>
> Isn't it the literary equivalent of masturbating in public?
>
>
> Swan's Way and the Education of Henry Adams were first  privately
> published.
>
> Shakespeare & Company, which came out first with Ulysses in its entirety,
> wasn't the normal sort of publisher.
>
> Don't know if any of these gentlemen did the other things too,
>
>
> P
>
>
>  P.
>
> On 3 August 2012 00:16, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I've not looked into self-publishing.  That's what AuthorHouse is isn't
>> it?
>>
>>  It says it's free, what's the problem there.  I mean, how does one go
>> wrong with self-publishing, how can that ever go wrong?  You take your
>> manuscript to a printer, basically, or is there more to it.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  De range hand say: DO NOT EVER PUBLISH WITH AUTHORHOUSE.
>>>
>>> You're welcome.
>>>
>>>    *From:* Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
>>> *To:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>> *Cc:* pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:33 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: Is the uncertainty principle culturally deranging?
>>>
>>> Oh der*anging*.  Mr. Kohut is certainly *that*.  I would never use that
>>> word though, or any deranged derivative there, hem, of.  If I did it would
>>> be in the best sense possible, which for me would be exceedingly *good*.
>>>
>>>  Does anybody write here?  I just got an email, who knows why I'm on
>>> their list, I haven't tried to publish anything in years, from a place
>>> called AuthorHouse, subject says Publish today and get a no-cost bump-up.
>>>  So I guess it's free, today, if you want to get published.  I'm currently
>>> stuck on page 400 hell with no end in sight.  432.  What is it about 400?
>>>  The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 400 times closer to it than
>>> the Earth, or something.  Bumping-up, m
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>  On 8/1/2012 10:23 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> but not pejoratively so I hope
>>>
>>> P
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  P.
>>>
>>> On 1 August 2012 23:52, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1976/oct/28/plastic-fiction-3/
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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