Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com>
>> You know when it comes ot attacking character the
>> French posties are prime
>> targets, so I'd keep the gossip down if I were you.
>> Try discussing some substance, like Thomas or Chuck.
Cian O'Connor:
> Why, it's not like Camilia leaves her own character
> out of her ravings. The woman's an egomaniac, judging
> by her typical articles.
That's just part of the act. It's supposed to outrage us just a bit, so that we bristle about the faculty lounge and advertise her books by complaining about them. I guess it works.
It's fun making fun of Camille, but maybe a little bit too easy:
Paglia:
> When I pointed out in Arion that Foucault, for all his blathering about
> "power," never managed to address Adolph Hitler or the Nazi occupation of
> France, I received a congratulatory letter from David H. Hirsch (a
> literature professor at Brown), who sent me copies of riveting chapters from
> his then-forthcoming book, "The Deconstruction of Literature: Criticism
> After Auschwitz" (1991). As Hirsch wrote me about French behavior during the
> occupation, "Collaboration was not the exception but the rule." I agree with
> Hirsch that the leading poststructuralists were cunning hypocrites whose
> tortured syntax and encrustations of jargon concealed the moral culpability
> of their and their parents' generations in Nazi France.
> ...
Well, of course. They're French, and as we all know a lot of the French were willing to Surrender and Collaborate with the Enemy, the shame of which they conceal with tortured syntax and jargon, in _French_, no less. Therefore....
I'm amazed Camille could make money writing that sort of thing; remarkable as it is, it's available free on Usenet, in great quantities, too.
-- Gordon