Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:39:47 -0700
Subject: Re: Pas Oubli ('a'-k(not)-gain)


"Absolute forgetting[...] As a condition of the gift event, condition of
the advent of a gift, absolute forgetting should no longer have any
relation with either the psycho-philosophical category of forgetting or
even with the psychoanalytical category that links forgetting to meaning
or to the logic of the signifier, to the economy of repression and to
the symbolic order. The thought of this radical forgetting as thought of
the gift should accord with a certain experience of the _trace_ as
_cinder_ or _ashes_..."  

J.D. "The Time of the King" CI winter '92 pg.174


"Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will,
namely, the subtarranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life. It
is ridiculous that we are diplomats, doctors, and considerate people:
there are no dupes like theses. Life is a series of surprises, and would
not be worth taking or keeping, if it were not. God delights to isolate
us everyday, and hide from us the past and the future... "you will not
remember," he seems to say, "and you will not expect.""  

Emerson, "Experience"

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