The Man Who Showed Us How to Take the World Apart

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:22, Dave Monroe wrote:

quoting someone quoting Derrida
> 
> "We do not in fact know what we are saying or naming
> in this way: September 11, le 11 septembre, September
> 11. The brevity of the appellation (September 11,
> 9/11) stems not only from an economic or rhetorical
> necessity. The telegram of this metonymy - a name, a
> number - points out the unqualifiable by recognizing
> that we do not recognize or even cognize that we do
> not yet know how to qualify, that we do not know what
> we are talking about." 
  

yet it's neat to go on talking--it's what we do