[lit-ideas] Re: xxSPAMxx Re: Thursday Thing (no hope for Sunday this week)
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:09:42 -0330
Which reminds me of a pretty funny funny:
What do you get when you cross a French deconstructionist with a Mafioso? (Think
about it first and then scroll down.)
Answer: (To be spoken in Marlo Brando's Godfather voice). "You get somebody that
makes you an offer you can't understand."
French in spirit(s) only,
Voltaire de la Rock de Terre Neuve
Quoting David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> And now I could try out for the role of the coy intellectual, like
> Mr. Baudrillard here:
>
> Some here feel that the study of the humanities at our universities
> has been damaged by the incursion of deconstruction and other French
> theories.
>
> That was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they
> did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French
> theory.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/magazine/20wwln_q4.html
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> But instead I'll pronounce you all correct, which is to say that I
> chose those two words because there were multiple ways of reading
> them. The thought's origin, however, was in a conversation earlier
> in the day, subsequent to a visit by Jacques Ranciere, in which I
> said that with some speakers the experience is more about form than
> content, you enjoy the *shape* of a sentence or even of the whole
> speech.
>
> And since someone asked off-list, no I don't think I've ever said,
> "buggery." I chose it because is sounds so unlikely and outdated and
> strange. "Bugger that," yes. But not "buggery."
>
>
>
> David Ritchie,
>
> Portland, Oregon
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