Re: 3 things as the sun finally appears...

John:
I'm so thrilled about your lecture. I'm a bit of a Derrida fan myself.
tina
"Monsters cannot be announced.
One cannot say: 'here are our monsters',
without immediately turning the monsters into pets."

Jacques Derrida

>Hi all,
>
>1.) Daniel, you know of course that there is no "ultimate deconstruction
>of
>logocentrism." In fact, the phrase begins with an oxymoron. And any
>desire
>for such a ridiculous thing would have nothing to do with anything written
>by
>that other J.D. But I am enjoying a happy and carefree life at the moment
>and
>have no desire whatsoever to spend time discussing such stuff. I am
>scheduled, however, to give a small talk at my own university introducing
>the film
>made last year about Derrida. When I prep that, I'd be happy to send you a
>post
>or two with thoughts that come to mind. My most recent on-campus guest
>lecture, just last week, was on Jack the Ripper and Victorian culture for a
>Criminology seminar on serial killers, so I've been in something of a
>different mode
>lately.
>
>
>2.) I kept being nagged by the words of an old "pig in literature"
>reference
>that I recalled but which I could not pinpoint. Then, just this week, I
>remembered. From the "social prayer for vengeance" that Ferdinand Bardamu
>recites
>to Arthur at the beginning of *Journey...*:
>
>"A God who counts the minutes and the pence, a desperate God, sensual and
>grunting like a pig. A pig with wings of gold which tumbles through the
>world,
>with exposed belly waiting for caresses, lo, 'tis he, behold out master!
>Embrace, embrace!"
>
>
>3.) I'm sure this has been discussed on the list previously, but are we
>all
>agreed that *Chasing Holden* is a terrible movie? I noticed it was on
>cable
>this afternoon and watched a few minutes of it again and was reminded how
>cheesy it was.
>
>That's it from the trenches of the Gulf Coast, where the monsoon that was
>this past week and a half finally looks like it is breaking and I am no
>longer
>stuck on the back porch like Isabel watching it rain in Macondo.
>
>All the best,
>
>--John

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