To Proceed. . .

Emily and Laura are right about the damn fruit and I am wrong. Kasey, too, more or less retracts the example, but sticks to the main point, which I think is the line I want to take. And which allows me to bring the whole discussion to bear on Flarf.

The whole question has to do with the relative ease and difficulty of arranging certain available materials so as to activate our institutions in the text.