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Yeah, but we don't get to have our way with language. Remember when Jack Lang tried to get rid of the circumflex? At 06:00 PM 9/28/2009, you wrote: >So . . . it's just like that chap in Borges who wrote Don Quixote? > >I just read Raymond Williams's entry in >_Keywords_ -- I think I like bürgerlich as a >term of abuse better than bourgeois -- all those >MacDonald's in the suburbs. Seriously, >William's point about the necessity of >continuing to have to use the awkward term for >class/economic analysis makes sense. But >Williams points out its imprecision as commonly >used by "unestablished artists, writers and >thinkers" -- and I would still argue that it should be ditched in that regard. > >David Latane > > > >From: cris cheek <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: 'Day' by Kent Johnson >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 3:08 PM > >somebody asked about what the book is actually "like" > >well it's pretty much exactly "like" Kenneth Goldsmith's "Day" > >excepting that the name on the cover is "Kent Johnson" > >and not "Kenneth Goldsmith" > > > >that's the point > > >xx > > >cris