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Elizabeth said:
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definitely pales in comparison to the rest of Baxter's oeuvre-- it's a very early book of his tho, so illuminating just to see how his work evolves. it's got the heart & poignance of his later stuff, however awkwardness of scenes & plot-moves & dialodefinitely pales in comparison to the rest of Baxter's oeuvre-- it's a very early book of his tho, so illuminating just to see how his work evolves. it's got the heart & poignance of his later stuff, however awkwardness of scenes & plot-moves & dialogue that feel more novice. i'm definitely plodding along w/ this one tho....more
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i really get off on this book. i have to read it in carefully managed circumstances w/ very little other stimulation. it brings me to higher minds which pertain to & inspire my ideas of presence v. absence & the meaning generated from contradiction, i really get off on this book. i have to read it in carefully managed circumstances w/ very little other stimulation. it brings me to higher minds which pertain to & inspire my ideas of presence v. absence & the meaning generated from contradiction, that are part of my "Rhonda" fiction i'm writing. (now is that titillating? i'm working on marketing.) anyway also derrida brings me great entertainment in his ridiculously obtuse statements such as here's one i found: "The true is repeated; it is what is repeated in the repetition, what is represented and present in the representation. It is not the repeater in the repetition, nor the signifier in the signification." i find this wildly entertaining, hilarious, and in some miniscule portion enlightening, at the same time. here's more titillation, this time from him in a footnote: "Writing, pedagogy, [and] masturbation . . share the property of being . . at once something secondary, external, and compensatory, and something that substitutes, violates and usurps." --see?! what images it brings me? it reminds/ evokes for me the trope (/reality) of: intellectual sex, w/ its strains of puritanism, combined with a ribaldry and perversion that exceed reg'lar-people getting-it-on. in other words, bringing a lot of vocabulary to the down&dirty....more
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