Joe Medley wrote, >Tom's two word dismissal of Reading >Capital and Anders' disingenous demand for *any* example of a pomo approach >that would satisfy *his* criteria, are not cute coming from adults. I wasn't trying to be cute. I was responding in kind to Gerald Levy, who perhaps was trying to be cute -- I don't know. I'm happy to go back to my original complaint about not being able to determine, in a 20 minute perusal, whether Derrida's Spectre of Marx would be worth buying and reading. I assure you that I accord much less than 20 minutes to most new books that come into the bookstore. I don't even pause as I walk past the self-help section or the new age shelf. Perhaps your argument is that I should buy and read all books before passing judgement on whether any particular book is more or less worthy of my concentrated attention. Perhaps if I was a character in a Borges short story, I would do just that. Failing that, what is wrong with the simple request that an author (or the publisher) provide some clue as to what a book is 'about'? Otherwise, I'm buying a pig in a poke. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm
