Subject: Re: Matrix crap? :)
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 18:15:57 GMT
You still haven't demonstrated that you understand a tenth of it, so...
I personally hate the French style of writing and can't stand reading
guys like Derrida, etc. I do read them, of course, anyhow because I
think their ideas are important, but it's not my style of writing. If
you think something is "crap" because it talks about their ideas (even
if it's not written in their style), then I suspect you probably don't
understand the tenth of it.
Jim
ZazieZazie@hetnet.nl wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 8:29 PM
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> 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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