KENT JOHNSON wrote:
>
> Question for Douglas: If mathematics is from the mind of God and
> poetry is made of mud and brittle bones, do we poets stand a
> better chance of touching truth by joining Oulipo?
mathematics cant be about the mind of god, because god
doesnt exist. Except in the imagination. But math is a
abstract construction too, like accounting, both of which
reside in the imagination. In which case, math is not _from_
god, but = to god. The two are the same thing, ask any
mathemetician
Derrida was fogetting that the universe contains the other
half of the ven diagram, ie the entire class of 'not-text';
and we access the world through it too.
j
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