Monthly Archives: October 2005
Trickster and Derrida
In the preface to Pharmacia, Derrida suggests that language is a game. The object of language’s game is to hide its true meaning from those who seek to interpret it and especially from those who would seek to pin language down and load it with concrete meaning.
Language is like jello, if I can adapt Derrida [...]
Verse
The Conundrum of the Workshops
By Rudyard Kipling
WHEN the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: [...]
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