Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 06:30:07 -0500
From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Jacques Derrida?


Derrida does not distinguish between fiction and philosophy,
says it's misleading to do so and each of his works attempts
to faithfully restitch their undue cleavage -- complicitly split by
practitioners and connoisseurs of both fields to offload
the burden of writing thoughtful fiction and entertaining
philosophy at the same time, that is, to craft literature fit
for engaging the plenitude life rather than yearing to escape it 
via mad Caesar/God fairy tales.

He does this by lively deconstruction of fiction and philosophy
and culture to show how lies and conceits are pilfered and
institutionalized, that is, sneakthief artifice, that is, the art of
immortal masterpiecing, venerating artists mostso: Pantheons, 
museums, Nobels, national treasures, monuments, irreplaceable 
artifacts, hallowed grounds -- memorials to what never could 
have been, but what else can an artist intellectual do to escape
regular work.





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