# pomo for dummies :) *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Sep 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Damien Broderick *05 Sep 1998, 12:20* < > What is "pomo"? There've been a number of references in > the discussion of Eco and "The Name of the Rose". Just an abreviation for "post-modern." Which, as near as I can tell from common usage can mean either "I don't understand it, but I like it," or "I don't understand it and I don't like it." -Rostrum > Advertisement: take a look at my Routledge book on sf textual strategies, READING BY STARLIGHT: POSTMODERN SCIENCE FICTION. Big emphasis on the work of Samuel R. Delany. Damien Broderick ---