NP...Very Misc. I thought of us. Anyone else?
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 18:24:21 CDT 2011
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It makes me think of a line in a Giorgio Agamben essay, from Potentialities:
> “(W)e can see a moral risk implicit in every act of interpretation, in every
> confrontation with a text or discourse, whether human or divine. This risk is
> that speech, which is nothing other than the manifestation and the unconcealment
> of something, may be separated from what it reveals and acquire an autonomous
> consistency.”
>
I'm trying to achieve an autonomous consistency, but, to quote Dr Evil
in a different context, "so far, unsuccessfully"
--
"The general agreement is that language should be a kind of honey. I
like it to be a kind of speed." - Michael Moorcock
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