Business as usual

From: Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Date: Sun Oct 27 2002 - 00:13:09 EDT

John offers the Giants of Literature Past as proof that Lacan and
Derrida (always those two...perhaps we can rotate in Lyotard or Barthes
every now and then, to keep it interesting?) haven't written anything of
real literary merit. John also offers the stimulation of imagination
(his own imagination, it seems) as the measuring post of aesthetic merit
in writing, then reminds us that Jim's catalogue of writer-critics is
really just a catalogue of writers who got desparate and decided to do
hack-work as academics to pay rent. Just like Shakespeare, forced to
write lowly sonnet sequences and those wretched long narrative poems
while the plauge raged across the precious stone set in the silver sea,
preventing him and his men from business as usual on the stage.
       

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It's all as clear as is the summer's sun,
Matt
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