French theory

[Monte Davis]

> "Indifference has two aspects: the undifferenciated abyss, 
> the black nothingness, the indeterminate animal in which 
> everything is dissolved - 
> but also the white nothingness, the once more calm surface 
> upon which float unconnected determinations like scattered 
> members: a head 
> without a neck, an arm without a shoulder, eyes without brows."

Sounds to me very much like some Vedanta sutras about Atman differentiating
from Brahman -- but ever so much more modern and fruitful. Most of the
darshanas yielded a sterile scholarship, rich with proliferating categories
and terminology but breaking little new ground -- while Deleuze & co have
given us the post-modern critical enterprise.