notes to self

In reading for a class, I write little notes to myself when I come across something particularly illuminating, particularly bizarre, or particularly frustrating. Now I'm reading Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation.

I'm officially boycotting the French. But not their wine.

'Thus everywhere the hyperrealism of simulation is translated by the hallucinatory resemblance of the real to itself.'
ok. great! so everything LOOKS real but it is really simulated and we cannot discern that everything is simulated. do i believe this? do you? and who am i talking to?

'we are in a logic of simulation, which no longer has anything to do with a logic of facts and an order of reason. Simulation is characterized by a precession of the model, of all models based on the merest fact - the models come first, their circulation...constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event. The facts no longer have a specific trajectory, they are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once.'
WTF?! is it even possible for him to sustain a line of logic for more than 2 sentences?