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. ---------- If the world were a logical place, Men would ride side-saddle. --Rita Mae Brown-- ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |