# Supervisionists

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 Nov 2014*

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### Norwood, Frederick Hudson
*12 Nov 2014, 13:02*

“If I had any supervision, Fred, would I be riding around in a chicken coop with a lion?”

Rick Norwood

From: Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 2:18 PM
To: The Urth Mailing List
Subject: Re: (urth) general video discussing Wolfe and literature

Superversionists?

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com<mailto:marcaramini at gmail.com>> wrote:
That's how it's done- beat 'em at their own game.  Are practitioners superverts or superverters?


On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com<mailto:automatthew at gmail.com>> wrote:

> On Nov 11, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com<mailto:danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> he kind of uses the trappings of postmodernism to undermine its commitment to utter fragmentation and subjectivity

"Superversion" as John C. Wright calls it.

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### DAVID STOCKHOFF
*12 Nov 2014, 15:35 · in reply to Norwood, Frederick Hudson*

Now, that is an obscure reference.

> On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 8:02 AM, "Norwood, Frederick Hudson" <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu> wrote:
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> ?If I had any supervision, Fred, would I be riding around in a chicken coop with a lion?
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> Rick Norwood
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> From:Urth [mailto:urth-bounces at lists.urth.net] On Behalf Of Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 2:18 PM
> To: The Urth Mailing List
> Subject: Re: (urth) general video discussing Wolfe and literature
> 
> Superversionists?
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's how it's done- beat 'em at their own game.  Are practitioners superverts or superverters?
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

>> he kind of uses the trappings of postmodernism to undermine its commitment to utter fragmentation and subjectivity

> "Superversion" as John C. Wright calls it.
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