RE: Try listening to the real ideas and ignore vitriolic attacks

It's the iceberg thing Walter, I am not just talking about the singularity
of Derrida but the underlying assumptions behind the whole authorial debate,
it does not just manifest itself here but saturates modern/post modern
culture. Some of it cheerleads and some reacts. But some living things
have roots that predate all of this, like those quiet Sequoias, we are long
winded but once motion begins it's a heap of inertia. John gives some of us
the impression that all the factors are accounted for, hell some in his camp
go as far as to say its parsimony. But what does this matter to a bog heap
in Jerome's pond? Well, are we discussing what Jerome is saying or what
some one who can't write themselves say what they want to say with what
Jerome says, not that that is bad as long as you know what you are doing.
Remember your poetry training? You had to master the forms before you could
improvise on them, not hard and fast but tried and true.

Daniel

Daniel writes, concerning something:

"Yea the hip modern groove is the 'inner space' thing, hey you can stay
stuck back in the '60's with Jim Morris banging on those doors some of us
prefer, at least now days, the path less traveled by. Not because we are a
bunch of James Deans but because the 20th century experiments just don't
wash."

Walter,

Do you now see my point about the value of such discussions, without either
any necessary working knowledge of the primary texts or any specific
reading?

It should be clear.

Thanks,

--John

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