Tonite on CBC they had a piece on him by the producer of film about
him-Kaufman
I am sure not may American shave read his works or the
other-"Deconstructionists"
Although not an "intellectual' - i enjoyed his works
Joanne
"Lewis Perin" > wrote in message
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> Apparently you can't be much of an intellectual if you haven't
> finished even one book from the Deconstructionist movement, and I have
> to plead guilty. But there is hope for me, because I've read enough
> of _The Time of Tea_ (photos by Suet, text by Pasqualini) to have
> confidence I'll eventually finish it.
>
> Pasqualini obviously knows a vast amount about tea, even if some of it
> isn't true. But informing the reader in any linear way is very low on
> his agenda. It's the (usually hidden) *meanings* of things he's
> principally after, representations within representations, and the
> pursuit gets pretty dizzying, maddening, even. But there are gems in
> the text, too, like his hymn to gongfu preparation around p. 160
> (sorry, I don't have the book handy.)
>
> Anyway, it was rather amazing the other day to hit what may be the
> climax of the whole book (a page where he quotes both Derrida and
> Proust) on the same day I read Derrida's obituary.
>
> /Lew
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