Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 11:43:35 -0800
Subject: lasso parabilis ovis


The section for _D&R_ is found in "Difference in Itself," between pages
35 and 42, the quote: "To fill a space, to be distributed within it, is
very different from distributing the space," is found at the bottom of
page 36 and results from considerations of 'problems of distribution.'  
Sometimes we divide up what's been distributed, analogy, to my mind,
affecting our 'contamination by otherness' in such instances, and with
'common sense' backed by 'consensus' making happy contestation difficult
and threatening to some, even on subtle levels.

Representations of illegibility itself (like ipsity and univocal Being),
to the contrary, are only contaminated by "fixed and proportional
determinations".

Consider your personal ozone layer, which is itself necessarily a matter
of that "completely other distribution which must be called nomadic, a
nomad _nomos_, without property, enclosure or measure, and consider what
depletes it.  Impossible to interrupt?  To rewrite or reread?

Consider the space of our interaction and swashbuckling.  How could we
possibly divide what we receive?  But when we 'distribute _ourselves_ in
an open space,' as Deleuze puts it, in "a space which is unlimited, or
at least without precise limits", as in our collective lurking and
visitations to other lists, for example, we can at best 'sea-saw' in the
margins of our limits, 'gest-you-r-touching' responsibility 'on the one
hand' and anguish 'on the other', if distinctions are so forced.

But making what kind of distinctions when?  Only under 'instruments of
torture'?  A certain variety of distribution, Deleuze continues, "is
demonic rather than divine, since it is a peculiarity of demons to
operate in the intervals between the gods' fields of action, as it is to
leap over the barrier or the enclosures, thereby confounding the
boundaries between properties.  Sound like any 'heretics' you _know_?

Does it make a difference if one is hung on the tines of a "Heritic's
Fork" or hanging from a "Parrot's Perch?"

If it's a question of individuation, can Suarez be left out of the
picture?

With a gurgling nod between chaos and its intensive variations,

Don Socha