Speaking of Yeats and Murthy's new sig

[j minnich]

Murthy's new sig:
>-- 
>Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
>        "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
>         Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
>

As an undergrad I suggested that Derrida was alluding to this poem when at
the conclusion of "Structure, Sign, and Play..." he wrote: "I employ these
words, I admit, with a glance toward the operations of childbearing -- but
also with a glance toward those who, in a society from which I do not
exclude myself, turn their eyes away when faced by the as yet unnamable
which is proclaiming itself and which can do so, as is necessary whenever a
birth is in the offing, only under the species of the nonspecies, in the
formless, mute, infant, and terrifying form of monstrosity."   I don't feel
qualified to recap Derrida's difficult essay but it seemed to me to be
referring throughout to centers that cannot hold.  The prof thought my
comments were completely off the wall.

-j minnich

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The poet is dead.
Nor will ever again hear the sea lions 
Grunt in the kelp at Point Lobos.
Nor look to the south when the grunion 
Run the Pacific, and the plunging
Shearwaters, insatiable, 
Stun themselves in the sea.  
   -W. Everson