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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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