Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:21:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: Wynship's proposals


> As for communication, your ineffable spirit is coming through loud 
> and clear:  my topic idea is lousy.

No, my ineffable spirit doesn't think that.  But it does think that your
ability to articulate your topic idea to people who don't already share your
understanding of it is somewhat lousy.  This prevents my ineffable spirit
from properly deciding what it thinks about the idea itself.

> Perhaps it would help if you read some of the relevant literature, such as
> Blanchot or Bataille.

Yes, it always helps to have read more, rather than less.  But I am not sure
that a topic that I cannot perceive as properly posited from where I'm 
already at, would reveal itself to me as properly posited if I read more.
This perception of "proper positing", it seems to me, has to do with one's
whole experience of living, not with whether one has read this or that book.
But this is a different discussion.

In any case, the spoons are in the process of trying to figure out what 
we think.


-m