From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca> Subject: Re: city of poets: =?iso-8859-1?Q?stupidit=E9?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_?= Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:47:32 -0500 (EST) Dear Jean, Best stick to French as when you write in English it tends towards the gutter as the idiomatic expression goes. You say it's a "crime," and that your hardrive is getting all "polluted" with accursed writing so to speak. A little too harsh, you are passionate I see, as we *all* are on this list. As far as your memory is concerned of previous so-called "collaborations"; did this really happen? The archives are there if you want to jog your memory but my memory says it didn't, nothing serious certainly came of anything before me and you started posting. If you have any experience of academic lists, you very well know how little serious collaboration and exchange in fact occurs. The only exception that I know of is the Heidegger list. Mostly it is dead air and no comunication and passionate interaction however possible or impossible ever happens. Not everybody writes clearly but I can and yet I will not be bound by clarity as I intend to explore other paths of expression on this list as many of us do. As I have already said there is room for the more normative academic style that you are used to. All it takes is the effort of posting and leading discussions to make of the list what you wish it to be so that you can profit from it and take whatever utilitarian advantage that you want to take from the list which is very okay sometimes. The animals here could use a teacher to make them more civilized and better readers of Bataille. You are welcome to help me out in this laudable project without project. Like I said, if your patient and put effort into it you *will* get more of what you are looking for. I am not saying that you should be polite, in fact, your responses so far are very Bataille list gutter level, accursed, on the lower-class type of response if I could be classicist for a second. A la Bataille, Ariosto --
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