"When writing in electronic environmentsand most acutely in MOO-space," Vitanza suggests, "we are writing our disappearance. We are dead avatars undergoing metamorphosis into something else" (90). We are dusk and dawn in a single window. In dying, we get the chance to come to life, to come to a posthuman(ist), postmodern(ist)and therefore post-nostalgiclife. So "don't be afraid," Cixous says in Coming to Writing, "it's your death that's dying. Then: all the beginnings" (41; Vitanza 91). Mourning becomes Electra, but Vitanza wonders if mourning can "become electricity" (84).
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