In a message dated 7/5/01 12:00:44 PM, qwe rty <[log in to unmask]> writes: >- Does the inherently textual nature of, say, these emails make them >potentially fictional and therefore not fulfilling the assumed nature of >the >email group? Are these positions then mutually exclusive, "O Welles"? clever, that. An actor drinking water or performing pornography--both instances of the collapse of actor/act-ed into one body, and of course these are simplistic situations--at least the water is. But the problem isn't located in any case in audience "confusion" but in the nature of its interest. Patricia A. Suchy