[lbo-talk] How to Deconstruct Almost Anything

[Jerry Monaco]

On 12/21/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 21, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> > Well yes, all is text.  Left unsaid is what I have been told often:
> > All those who don't understand that all is text, are simply benighted.
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> It's really interesting how so many people can't just shrug, maybe
> giggle lightly, and move on; instead, they get all huffy & puffy
> about something they want to dismiss as trivial or ludicrous. Why is
> that? All that slipperiness of meaning make you a little nervous?
>
> Doug
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Good point.  It must be why I love Plato and Augustine and Blake and
Wordsworth and Borges and Nabokov.  Slippery meaning makes me nervous
and I love to be nervous.  Nervousness helps me to brood.  Brooding
makes me sexy.  (Cf. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for numerous
examples.)

On the substantive question, I refer you to my reply to bitch in the
parallel thread as  a partial answer.

 But strange, I have had no similar comments about long threads
discussing the auteur theory.   And if we ever have a long thread on
chess discussing the labyrinths of the Sicilian Defense, Najdorf,
Poisoned Pawn variation, I am sure the same conclusion about my
nervousness over the seven types of slimy ambiguity can also follow.
Perhaps, Doug, you have an Oedipal investment in Lacan or Derrida?

Jerry.

I have to get off the internet for now.  My time is up.