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2. See D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality (New York: Tavistock-Methuen, 1984). Of course, it's all "object relations." [BACK]
3. See the essay by that name in this volume for a discussion of these issues in relation to the work of John Cage. [BACK]
4. See more about Gadda in ":RE:THINKING:LITERARY:FEMINISM:" in this volume. [BACK]
6. Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1985–86 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), 106. [BACK]
7. Gertrude Stein, Blood on the Dining Room Floor (Berkeley: Creative Arts Books, 1982). See "The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein" in this volume. [BACK]
8. Calvino, Six Memos, 107. [BACK]
9. Ibid. [BACK]
10. Ibid., 108. [BACK]
11. Francis Ponge, The Power of Language, trans. Serge Gavronsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), 8. [BACK]
12. See "Cybernetic Explanation," in Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (New York: Ballantine, 1990), 410. [BACK]