From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: four silences?
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:28:35 -0500


Rod wrote:

Sorry all that I've been slacking. I was kind of appointed by Eric to
read
Lyotard through his later works. But other projects have set me adrift
(Thomas de Quincey and David Cronenberg). 

Rod,

Please don't take this as burden. I am totally lacking in any powers
here. I merely made this suggestion because frankly I am sympathetic to
this approach and would like to hear more.

By the way, I was just reading recently that the situationists such as
Debord liked reading de Quincey and his views on opium and the city may
have had an influence upon the concept of the derive.

What draws you lately to derive with opium eaters?