Re: re: filmed, splendor
Robert Elkin <[email protected]>
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You are describing PHALLOS, of course, as well. --- Jon Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > ...But let's just play with this for a moment: in a > long long career of > writing challenging texts, looping difficult, > complex texts and > intertexts and ouroboros texts, what if a writer > wanted to create the > greatest metatext of all time? How might he do it? > Couldn't he create > a wonderful work that has an almost cliffhanger > ending, announce the > sequel, wait, publish a few supposed lines from the > sequel in a > review somewhere, and wait ten more years, publish a > *new, different > book* and go on with his life? Occasionally mention > it in interviews > when asked. That sort of thing. Now we in the > audience all have a > wonderful inventory: the most evocative title in > ages, a deep > unsatisfied longing, a hint of what is there, and > our speculations. > This book is already written in our minds, inasmuch > as it is > *unwritten* in reality. If he passes before it's > finished, I'm going > to just assume that's what he intended all along! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 == Posted to delany-list, hosted at yahoo groups == == A mailing list for the discussion of the works of Samuel R. Delany. == Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delany-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delany-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/