March 22, 2005

• The Enemy
  
  

  See Remembering Jacques Derrida.

  “There is no teacher but the enemy.”

  – Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game,

     Tor paperback reprint, 1994, p. 262

  “Différance is, for Derrida, the key concept
  in
  order to understand what is here at stake.”

  – Lacan Derrida, by Frida Saal

  The following entries from October 2004

  are related to the death of Jacques Derrida.

  
  

  Saturday, October 9, 2004  6:40 PM Derrida Dead “Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born, French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and unfathomable philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president’s office announced. He was 74.” – Jonathan Kandell, New York Times “There is no teacher but the enemy.” – Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game,    Tor paperback reprint, 1994, p. 262 Saturday, October 9, 2004  2:22 AM Belief KERRY: “I’m going to be a president who believes in science.” KERRY: “I’m a Catholic – raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life, helped lead me through a war, leads me today.” BUSH: “Trying to decipher that.” Friday, October 8, 2004  5:07 PM Behush the Bush James Joyce statue, Zurich “There’s where. First. We pass through grass behush the bush to.” — Final page of Finnegans Wake “… we all gain an appreciation of how each of us can provide readings that others are blind to and how each of us is temporarily blind to other feasible readings. Reading the text becomes a communal act of discovery…. No one has much to say, for now, about the grass reference….” — Reading Finnegans Wake (1986) The phrase “snake in the grass” seems relevant, as does the opening of Finnegans Wake: riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s…. Related material: Joyce and Tao, Why Me?, Serpent’s Tail Publishing, and, for Matt Damon, whose birthday is today – The Joyce Identity.

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