Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 23:32:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bryan Ray Fruth <bfruth-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Re:  Reading Group




On Thu, 25 May 1995, B Madonna Durkheim wrote:

> 
> 	Bryan, are you really an anti-abortionist?
> Sometimes it seems to me that the only decent readings of Baudrillard are
> aborted ones.
> 
> 	By the way, has anyone experienced strange thing around
> Baudrillard's texts? For example: once, I was given an unstapled
> photocopy of an interview with B and read the entire thing in one sitting,
> it seemed slightly fragmented, but flowed well.  It wasn't until the end
> of the copy that I realized I had read the entire thing backwards, when I
> saw the cover page.  Another time, a friend of mine went to the book store
> to order a copy of Fatal Strategies, and as soon as they punched the order
> into the computer, the entire computer system collapsed.  Has this type of
> thing happened to anyone else?
> 
 
Anti-abortionist?    Hummmm...not really.
  (Wouldn't Baudrillard warn about maintining an anti-anything position?)	

I appreciate your humor. And you really have pointed out the wacky, 
magical, and unpredictable power of language.  

BTW, for me, weird things happen whenever I watch a Tarkovsky flick.

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Bryan Fruth
American Culture Studies
Bowling Green State University Bowling Green OH 43402
Email: bfruth-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu
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