Subject: RE: Matrix crap? :)
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 14:30:38 GMT
I admit i am guilty of incorrect description and naming. I wasn't referring to the content of the piece, merely the style, which
can, depending on circumstances, the weather, the writer, tea and the whole interconnectedness of things, be important or not.
As to the content, I thought it was amusing and clever at times farfetched, but not overly so.
The style, however ... brrrr! It's this sort of style one is confronted with all day long when one studies Media Studies, not only in
writing but also in speech, when the lecturer is trying to impress his audience.
I suppose, my slightly less than amused attitude towards this, is not wholly incomprehensible.
Furthermore, I thought it was a bit cheap to say that i didn't understand a tenth of it. Not a good way to deal with criticism, but maybe 'crap'
was too strong a word. I know the meaning, but i don't 'feel' the value of words, at times
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From: "owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org" <owner-bananafish@roughdraft.org> on behalf of "Jim Rovira" <jrovira@drew.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 8:29 PM
To: "bananafish@roughdraft.org" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Matrix crap? :)
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.]>>
I don't think in anagrams, that's why...it's a silly, shallow thing to
look for and the imagery is pretty up front without the anagram. Your
own projection of the anagram -- (it's also an anagram of 'oen' which
means "dork" in Dutch) -- is exactly the problem with anagrams. Letters
can ALWAYS be randomnly rearranged into other words...but that doesn't
mean the rearranged letters intentionally convey meaning, or that they
are anything more than coincidence. But if you prefer the silly and
shallow...no, you probably won't get much out of that Matrix essay. You
probably didn't understand a tenth of it, and probably because you
haven't read the sources I was writing about... :)
I think I meantioned that "neo" was referred to as "the one" in the
movie -- that paragraph was, I think, an introduction to the religious
imagery permeating the film. The "one" is a messianic appellation as is
"neo" (associated with "new," the "new man," etc.). You don't really
need to play games with letters and words to get this much...
Jim
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