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Jeremy Butler <[log in to unmask]>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1993 09:06:52 EST Currie Thompson said:
>     But then I think Borges should have the last word, and I quote again
>from "Pierre Menard, Author of the _Quixote_": "There is no exercise of the
>intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. . . .  Fame is a
>form of incomprehension, perhaps, the worst."  (Both sentences seem
>pertinent to any discussion of postmodernism.)
 
 A footnote:
 
 In the late 1970s a Northwestern grad student named Val Almendarez made
 a short pastiche based on Michael Snow's WAVELENGTH and this Borges
 piece.
 
 While the camera tracks in across a loft (a la WAVELENGTH) Paddy
 Whannel read from Borges.
 
 I had the rare honor of playing Hollis Frampton in this film.  I
 walked into the frame.  And died.
 
 
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