Candice,
In an earlier post, you said: "I think you implicitly endorse that bad
faith when you do the same to Baudrillard here by repeating a quote out
of its context of serious, fairly smart work ... in order to say that
it's funny."
I think I was doing something slightly different, and rather different
from what Sokal was doing. There's a difference between poking fun and
pointing out that something might have fun poked at it. It was the
latter I was trying to do. But I admit it's a close call between them.
Stevens's poem does a good job on the non-Euclidean issue with its:
>Two parallels that meet if only in
>
>The meeting of their shadows or that meet
>In a book in a barrack, a letter from Malay.
I still don't have a clue what
>a hyperspace with
>multiple refractivity,
might mean, though. I'm glad you liked my footnotes.
Best,
--
Peter
http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
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