>OK, so you and I both reading this message
  >(or Joan Retallack's _Afterrimages_) doesn't
  >confuse us into thinking we've drunk from
  >the same glass of water, but what happens
  >when I can send the consensuality of the
  >glass and water down a 'wire?'

  >Shouldn't we prepare ourselves for this in
  >our present practices? (Haven't we already
  >so prepared ourselves?) The practices of the
  >so-called 'linguistically innovative
  >writers' are not, imho, qualitatively
  >different from the overly seductive
  >potential which fizzes and buzzes in the
  >e-spaces we've (manifestly) entered into. In
  >fact, I *thought* you all were ahead of the
  >game.

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