A Note on/in Passing

“I will never forget the moment when [asked] ‘You know that Derrida died?’ I did not know. It seemed to me as if a curtain was falling. The noise of the hall was suddenly in a different world. I was alone with the name of the deceased, alone with an appeal to loyalty, alone with the sensation that the world had suddenly become heavier and more unjust, and the feeling of gratitude for what this man had shown. What was it ultimately? Perhaps this: that it is still possible to marvel without reverting to childhood.”

Sloterdijk, Peter. Derrida, An Egyptian: On the Problem of the Jewish Pyramid. 2006. Trans. Wieland Hoban. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. Print.