> perhaps one of the problems of
> the book is that it no longer exists as startling or shocking, just another
> language work with its tagged "opaqueness."
This is interesting, and does raise questions about how
sustainable the whole l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e project really was/is.
But I'm also not sure that Drucker was trying to startle or
shock; there are no Ackerisms in _DD_ (well maybe one or two).
More than either startling or shocking I think she wants to
believe she is delivering narrative -- and from here I'd go to
both the mythopoeic metastructures of the book (the Garden, the
Fall, etc.) and Drucker's own comments on her identification
with soap operas and the like.
--Matt
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia
mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English
http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ Electronic Text Center