Yee haa! I haven't had so much fun in months! Smugness rules! Breaking
things rules!
As for 'not possible'...As somebody once said - I think it was in a Douglas
Adams novel - it should be a matter of principle that you do at least 2
impossible things before breakfast.
Oh for a geography of the impossible...
At 07:26 AM 8/16/01 -0400, you wrote:
>oh, deary me, seems that all this fancy book learning hasn't really
progressed(!) us terribly far as of yet....all of these "things" (and, ok,
as suggested, this word may be part of the problem though, in the world of
the bookish, it seems implausible that any other would be any less
problematic) that we either may or may not believe (yikes!) in do ACTUALLY
EXIST...and the problem becomes what actually consitutes an existence (woe!
how much my life!) and surely apparently traceable, within particular
bounds (i.e. those that seek to trace them) convergences of effects that
happen repeatedly, again and again, and again and again...at least give the
impression of stability...and why, then, are we unable to take this
apparent stability as constitutive of something that is actually there??
which, of course, it may not be. Ok, so we don't believe (gah!)in
thatcherism...though, again, we can find traces, probably still feel
effects, of whatever it is that we imagine (assuming we !
>can be bothered) thatcherism to be....now, ok, again, we now don't believe
in post-structuralism. this is not possible - assuming you want to explain
what it is, whatever it is, that WE (and here i claim my
crit-geog-solidarity badge) do...or have done. Go on, i dare you!!
Except, of course, we are all supremely confident, verging on smug, about
what we do, whatever it is, and thus the notion that it might just be
rubbish need not trouble us unduly! There are enough of us to read each
others' "stuff"......
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