Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:46:36 -0600
From: Bryan Alexander <balexand-AT-centenary.edu>
Subject: [Fwd: Benjamin at the Dairy Queen]


>From frankfurt-l

L Spencer wrote:
> 
> >Date:          Sun, 14 Nov 1999 02:34:33 -0800 (PST)
> >From:          Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-oregon.uoregon.edu>
> >Subject:       Benjamin in the news
> >To:            frankfurt-school-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> The latest NYReview of Books carries a full review of "Walter
> Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at 60" by Larry McMurty.
> 
> Seems that Mr McMurty - a name unknown to me, I am afraid, until it
> was raised in this connection - took unto him an idea to mosey on
> down to the Dairy Queen to see what sort of stories people were
> swappin' there. Wanted to put the inspired (but apparently extreme)
> ideas of Benjamin's essay on "The Storyteller" to some kind of
> empirical test.
> 
> And to explore the way in which people's own stories interweave with
> those offered up with those on the media and the way in which the
> locale - the micro-architecture of something like the Dairy Queen
> (whatever that may be) has its effects.
> 
> Please can we have a further consumer report... before I cough up my
> dosh. For I shall surely be a-purchasing thereof.
> 
> Lloyd

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