Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters, ' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

Jacques Derrida
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  1. The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.

  2. But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation–and yours too–to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case,...

  3. And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well...

  4. In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and “l’avenir” [the ‘to come]. The future is that which — tomorrow, later, next century — will be. There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future,...

  5. A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility...

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