Re: Restoration

Daniel,

As far as I can see, your last post offers what I think were a few kind words
and then the usual stuff about Derrida being difficult to read.

He is, of course, difficult for many people to read, but certainly not for
the same reasons that your past ramblings to me were impossible for me to
understand. In too many cases, you simply offered me no grammar, no coherence, no
organization and therefore no way to read your sentences.

Derrida actually writes, most often (except when he's writing fiction such as
in The Post Card, or when he's cutting and pasting, such as in Glas), in
complete sentences and paragraphs and carefully structured essays which are
usually offering close, detailed readings and interpretations and arguments about
other texts. Yes, those readings might be dense and they may be laborious and
they may be fully engaged in the specific language of his particular discipline
(19th and 20th Century Continental philosophy) and that might make his prose
difficult for some. But that is certainly not the same as writing one-screen
posts that offer no readings, no referents, and just a smattering of
ungrammatical clauses.

So the comparison is not exactly an apt one.

But I suspect you already knew that.

All the best,

--John (who will only be here for one more evening, and then heads off to
play three of the best golf courses in the country all while watching the British
Open every morning on the television).

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Received on Wed Jul 16 15:20:56 2003