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From: "Henry Gould" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 12 June 2002 13:14
Subject: Re: Fiction and poetry
Henry
I haven't read the book; I would want some convincing; but surely this idea
that we can't describe the universe fully goes way back, to Shannon at
least - that you cannot describe all the data (as it is from this
perspective) of the universe with a subset of the data
| Likewise a poet begins, consciously or not, with a formal matrix or
| algorithm for the material.
This doesn't allow for a processual approach
You seem to be using the substantive "writing" to mean only what is actually
written:
| an oral/performative grounding... which distances
| what they're doing from "writing"
I don't see that
L
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