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“If I write two texts at once you won’t be able to castrate me. If I delinearize, I erect. But at the same time I divide my act and my desire. I—mark the division and, escaping you always, simulate all the time and don’t come anywhere. I castrate myself—I remain(der) myself thus—and I ‘play at coming.’”

"How could ontology take hold of a fart? It can always get its hands on what stays in the shitcan, never on the air biscuits released by roses."

Another experiment in only literally reading

Another experiment in only literally reading

“What must be tightened here is the angle from which a neck and peniclitoris come to be bandaged together. Which a strangulation hardbinds—”

2. Fr. glai m. "glaïeul" (Ben SMaure - 1709, s. Trév;
Gdf; Chestien; Gace; Escoufle; Mon Guill; Enf Guill;
Molin; Lemaire; Tristan H), judfr. glaid Rs, anam. glare Haust Méd. Cherb. gliai "iris faetidissima" Joret Fl, Troyes glas "glaieul" Gr, Esternay glai "iris", HMarne BYe ALF 1599 p 28, gla ALFSuppl p 128, Marne gle
"reed" ALF 1166 p 135, Vouth. dia "glaieul," Brillon, Dombras gla, Cum. gaum. "iris," Metz gya

Re-completed “Secrets of European Responsibility”. I’m getting Derrida’d out

Tombfall, remains

"Christ's teaching concerns the love that we must show to our private enemies, to those we would be tempted to hate through personal or subjective passion, and not to public enemies. Christ's teaching would thus be moral or psychological, even metaphysical, but not political" (103).

"That ... order is founded upon a bottomless chaos is something that will necessarily be brought home one day to those who just as necessarily forget the same" (86).

I fear this will be my first book-length experiment of only technically reading

Completed "Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know)".

"Abraham must assume absolute responsibility for sacrificing his son by sacrificing ethics, but in order for there to be a sacrifice, the ethical must retain all its value; the love for his son must remain intact, and the order of human duty must continue to insist on its rights" (66).

Kind of bewildering how much more legible and insightful this book became as soon as Derrida started talking about Kierkegaard

Completed "Beyond: Giving for the Taking, Teaching and Learning to Give, Death".

"Death is very much that which nobody else can undergo or confront in my place. My irreplaceability is therefore conferred, delivered, 'given,' one can say, by death" (41).

Can barely focus today, for some reason. May or may not read more by the end of the day, we'll see

Completed "Secrets of European Responsibility".

Being pulled back...

"Something has not yet arrived, neither at Christianity nor by means of Christianity. What has not yet arrived at or happened to Christianity is Christianity. Christianity has not yet come to Christianity. What has not yet come about is the fulfillment [...] of the new responsibility announced by the mysterium tremendum" (28).

losing the plot