Re: Bio #7


Subject: Re: Bio #7
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 10:28:27 GMT


I'm sure: Jacques Derrida in "Mémoires for Paul de Man". I just KNEW reading all that awful
Matrix crap had to good for SOMETHING ... :-) Did i say reading? I meant wrestling through of
course ...
About that Matrix story: If I ever find the energy [not the time, I have loads of that, now]
the sheer energy I'll give you all an anthology of utter academic-non-stylistic sentences from
that essay ...

To quote the 'mistress of the nastily inescapable roundiness' loosely [and slightly wrong, i'm
sure, for which my apologies]:
"Mr. Rovira has written a nice little story but it lacks depth and something else."

My own comments, I shall keep to my self, in order to be a kinder and gentler person :)

Trying to sound smart [but failing hopelessly]
Zazie.

PS. Matrix 'crap': www.jamesrovira.20m.com/matrix.htm
PS. I wonder why mr. rovira never mentions that Neo is an anagram of One? [actually, it's also
an anagram of 'oen' which means 'dork' in Dutch, ;-) but this is completely beside the subject,
rather.]

At 04/10/01 08:24:00, you wrote:
>Hey Rocky, watch me pull an autobiography out of my hat...
>
>Again?
>
>Nothin' up my sleeve....
>
>     I have never known how to tell a story.
>     And since I love nothing better than remembering and Memory itself --
>Mnemosyne -- I have always felt this inability as a sad infirmity.  Why am I
>denied narration?   Why have I not received this gift? Why have I never
>received it from Mnemosyne, *tes ton Mouson metros*, the mother of all muses,
>as Socrates recalls in the*Theaetetus*? The gift of Mnemosyne, Socrates
>insists, is like the wax in which all that we wish to guard in our memory is
>engraved in relief so that it may leave a mark, like that of rings, bands, or
>seals. We preserve our memory and our knowledge of them; we can then speak of
>them and do them justice, as long as their image remains legible.
>     But what happens when the lover of Mnemosyne has not received the gift
>of narration?   When he doesn't know how to tell a story? When it is
>precisely because he keeps the memory that he loses the narrative?
>
>Whoops.   Great hat, but it was only a gift.
>
>Now here's something we hope you'll *really* like...
>
>--John
>

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