rene confesses:
>I'll just say
>that nobody, including Carter & the editor
himself, knew what the editor
>was talking about. I wish I still had the tape - it
was something
>straight out of Monty Python.)
>I'm not dissing Barthes here (I admit I'm not overly
familiar with his
>stuff) - I'm having a go at some of the schools of
academic writing
>following that became so impenetrable that a fellow
who didn't even have
>a good handle on English as she is spoke could write
essays, etc in this
>impenetrable gobbledygook and come out top of his
class, with a
>distinction yet.
hahaha. pretty darned funny, rene. been there, done that with
some cormac mccarthy commentary. care for a sample:
"The judge has not broken any signifier-signified chain,
leaving signs dangling in a deconstructive pose searching for
meaning, but rather he cleanly cleaves the earthly object
from its representation and leaves the signifier in place as
the sign itself."
i'd say somebody has got their bird stuck in their ear. a
person needs hip-boots to wade through stuff like that.
miker
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