File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postco_1995/postco_Aug.95, message 16


Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 18:44:21 +0800
From: gruffydd-AT-uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Gareth Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Postcolonial theory/practice/strategy meets TONIGHT/TODAY


Dear Rschram,
I got your message about the MOO.  I have not participated in one of these
and would need to spend a bit of time turning all those complicated
instructions into an "how to do" on my Eudora programme on Mac.  I guess I
would have tried except that living in Western Australia your message dated
8/3/95 arrived on my machine dated 8/4/95 and I couldn't face working out
the complex time difference and if you were Eastern Standard, Central,
Mountain or whatever and if I had to allow for Australian summer time in
calculating the difference.  In the light of the observation by Australian
poet Les Murray that in post-colonial societies such as Australia "time
broadens into space", and privileges Space Over History, your reference to
a "real" time meeting for a postcolonial MOO produced an unintendedly
ironic if rather aptly post-colonial effect.

Best of luck anyway for the MOO.  If I ever work out where I am, what I'm
doing here and what time it is where you are I'll try and join.


Gareth Griffiths

P.S.Does it effect reception if you are standing on your head?

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Prof. Gareth Griffiths                  Email gruffydd-AT-arts.uwa.edu.au
Dept. of English,
University of Western Australia,
Nedlands,                               Tel.+61 9 3802120
WA 6009, AUSTRALIA.                     FAX +61 9 3801030



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