Re: lost papyri

    The word 'passè' is revealing precisely because it does
    NOT mean 'absorbed'. It means, just as you intended
    to say, 'no longer fashionable with those who set the trends'
    - the profs who preach Lacan this year, Foucault next year
    & Leavis Redivivus the one after that.

    When I wish to bury my early books it's not because
    they no longer fit some current mode. It's because they
    strike me as thin, glib, derivative, scribbled off in a facile
    way without the kind of dedicated imagining & thinking
    that goes into the production of any real piece of art; &,
    I believe, unworthy of my talents - such as they are.

    If you can't recognise the distinction I doubt I can make
    it clearer.

    Scottie B.

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Received on Mon Sep 2 18:27:04 2002