Re: teed off

John gets solicitous and says:
>No, I'm really not. This, after all, is what we do for fun.

Is that what THEY do for fun? Seems to me you guys should take up something
with more oomph, like bird watching. Thanks for the insight, you were dead
on with my absence from Your World.

As for your questions, I cannot answer them. I just don't want to fall in
that trap set by you. You've netted the surroundings and now placed a juicy
piece of carcass in the middle of the land and your sitting there waiting.
Anticipating me to misquote your Fellow. It does not cause me any pangs to
realize you are much more familiar with Derrida than I am, or will ever be.
I've heard his Greatest Hit's years ago and am prepared to go from there.
But I'll be damned if you make the argument that you have to be
knowledgeable of his florid BS to criticize it.

>From what I know, and haven't repressed of Derrida, he starts off with a
philosophical position. Like most philosophers, he invents his own
vocabulary but gets very fussy when someone pulls that trick on him.
At his best, he's a poor man's Kant, at his worst, I begin reading his works
and reach for something to ease the pain. Boy, when Keats said "Philospher's
will clip the wings of angels" he was right like only a genius can be. Never
could he have realized what kind of mess would follow. If only he could have
seen that bloated sell-out Martin H., running with the devils, screaming
down the blood-soaked street like some 20th century Kruger-produced Wotan.
Florid prose, fat bastard.

Typically, the English speaking crowd is blamed for misrepresentation (as if
his thoughts are so readily translatable) but this does not make Derrida
anything less than a frivolous forgettable figure with a penchant for sloppy
irrationalism. Do you think even one of your student's gives a frog's fat
ass what Derrida considers important in works of literature, or will
remember it ten years from now? Doubtful. Let them engage Crime and
Punishment, forget about what's subverted.

As far as decuntstructing Salinger, I'd like you to find any "accidental"
features in ANY of his works. Your a well-read man. I challenge you. Even if
this request is denied, there's nothing like that ol college try. I find the
bulk of your posts either rhetorical mish-mash or scripted backwash. It's
time you put up or shut up.
After all, Derrida put the hair on your chest that got you the job in
academe which makes my envy palpable. Surely you've read all 13 items of The
Old Hermit's literary output. Start picking, if you dare.
I don't, can't find elements that betray an essential message, whatever the
hell that means. See, now I am enmeshed in this God-forsaken lingo created
by those trans-Atlantic doggeries. Likely, it's all because I'm an original
duplicate, an optimistic nihilist, right? But exactly.

Omlor, I praise your efforts and look foward to each of your postings with
perverse presentiment. Your perspective is appreciated. As you might already
know by now, the philosphical side of deconstructionism (I love using that
word because it pisses all of them off so) is something I understand very
little of. As for the literary side of deconstructionism, my understanding
is even less. What I do know is the unsettling fact that deconstructionism
makes rigorous use, mostly abuse, of the blunt tools of literary criticism.
Moreover, while I'm bellyflopping into that puddle you left me in;

What the Hell was wrong with a poem being a closed thing-in-itself?
Thats not good enough, is it, Omlor?

Do you even understand what a "chain of references" does to undermine the
power of an author?

Could you identify them if they were presented before your eyes? Do you have
evidence for the above, Herr Dr?

It has come to my attention that Omlor hasn't been flexing a creative muscle
since he hurlted Grammatology (in good time though) and thus has no idea
what goes on outside of his Kollagen circles.

Cordially,

John Gedsudski
Adjuct Professor of Sciolism
Northern Philisita Community College
501 Boorish Drive
NY,NY

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