This is the bones of the talk I gave at Dundee University last month. Didn't have time to write a full formal paper. I get massively extemporaneous when I do these things, moving in and out of the notes, so this isn't everything I said. But what the hell. I was writing on the assumption of a mostly academic audience, so I recapitulated some old thoughts and re-used the old Harvey Pekar line I'm so fond of trotting out. Also, this was all written in pencil, in my hideous chickenscratch, in a note
Published on July 14, 2009 15:09