OT: Derrida Derision (was: Re[2]: Question - V Ch.)

[Michael Baum]

>From Monday, April 30, 2001, 9:55:43 PM:

RF> Remind anyone of Derrida's Postcard?
RF> "What does a post card want to say to you? On what
RF> conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you, you no longer
RF> know who you are. At the very instant when from its address it
RF> interpellates, you, uniquely you, instead of reaching you it divides you
RF> or sets you aside, occasionally overlooks you. And you love and you do
RF> not love, it makes of you what you wish, it takes you, it leave you, it
RF> gives you."

"Its destination traverses you"? I've never bothered to read St.
Derrida. This is an actual quotation from an actual Published Work? Is
the rest of his stuff such antic gibberish? Though he writes in
French, doesn't he. Something, such as any iota of sense, is probably
lost in the translation.

maab