Sillier and sillier.
At 04:28 PM 10/1/2009, you wrote:
>There has been a new development in the Johnson/Goldsmith debate.
>Charles Bernstein notified me to say that he had reproduced, in 2006,
>Kenny's 'Weather' in full:
>
>http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/archive/weather.html
>
>The inference being that Kent's doing the same with Day is passe. In
>response to this new development Kent says:
>
>'Fascinating!
>
>There is an important difference, though. Bernstein announces that the
>work is by Goldsmith, and he seems to add his name in a playful sort of
>gesture, a kind of "afterthought" beneath "Kenny Goldsmith's The
>Weather." It's a "half-hearted" ironic tweak, so to speak.
>
>I'm not doing that. I'm *erasing* Goldsmith's name and affirming
>myself as the book's Author! I'm affirming (sardonic though the
>affirmation is) the book as my "property." Which is to say that the
>category of Authorship is bracketed in uncomfortable sorts of ways.
>
>Feel free to send this on to Charles.'
>
>Which I did. I won't quote Charles's full response as I haven't got his
>permission to do so. But he said that he used his version of 'Weather'
>in teaching a course on Goldsmith. And said the piece 'seemed more
>fresh three or four year ago'
>
>Kenny's response to this is:
>
>'I think you need to spread this all over the place, Jeffrey. It takes the
>whole discussion into a new area. Please quote my letter if you do so
>at Poetics and your blog. There is simply no comparison.
>
>Charles *always* needs to be first! (note the hilarious remark about
>how it seemed "more fresh three or four years ago"!)'
>
>Which is why I'm posting it here.
>
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