Subject: MB: Them "Limit-Experience($)",...
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:32:49 EST


...and how they are 'a'-gaining on us, wonderfully, lived, wrought well
beyond the scratches and softer rows to hoe of  hard-wired-thought. To
mind there drops, Simone Weil in Blanchot, on "affliction" and
"attention" (just take a look at _IC_, pp. 106-122, esp., 120-122) - yes,
for both of you! - and there recall: "Affliction is inattention's
extreme. Attention is an attention that makes itself bearable to the
affliction that cannot bear being attended to." (_IC_, 122). I'm speaking
as one to two now - yes for both of you -. Or tip-toe even to what
footnoted preserves "extreme affliction", as  "'a's"  cat-o-9-lives.
(_IC_ 122, 447). [Lacanian laughter]

T/here, a thread thrown, a "ritrovai" encore, to the issue of attention
and affliction, and how will your eyes casts themselves upon the bottom
of page 121 of _IC_; unexpectedly perchance? 

---------> "Attention is the reception of what escapes attention, an
opening    <---------
---------> upon the unexpected, a waiting that is the unawaited of all
waiting."<---------

So(wn) I await you with open arms, dear Michael,  if a visit indeed you
wish to pay me, (but I don't live in "Blueballs PA";  _ all_  would say
quite the contrary though), or should those "limit-[post$]" be unfolded,
showing how  Simone Weil would repeat from her  _Notebooks_, vol. 1,
under the heading "Reading",  that  "...we pass from one meaning to
another by an effort - an effort in which the body always
participates,..."? See!? LaLuc-sea's awl/all. [Gore-Gongorian laughter].

Pass, my dear$, pass,...as a "passage a' l'acte", for there is much to
contribute to what hard-wired-thought thinks, oddly even here lisplisting
 on MB, with these issues. But if you "promise" me this visit,  maybe
over a few beers and dinner  you would see your eyes through mine, and I
promise we'd even sit  where once Don and I sat. [sacrilegious
laughter]*. (Or how-a-bout this: we could hang together while I give**
some classes, and you'd be a guest speaker - now that would be a
'limit-experience' thrown within the pedagogical arena. Let me know now,
send me a post before you get here, and after that, well,  it'll be
hysterical/hearse-stir-'a'-call.) *** 
------------------------------------------------------------><-------------------------------------------------
entre chien et loup dans
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lalangue trespasses,
------------------------------><-------------------------------------------------
Lucio Angelo Privitello
-----------------------------><-------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------/----------------------------------------------------
------------------------------->"Language is the place of attention"
(_IC_, 122)<---------------

* Erasmus, even.
** and receive performances, _reely_ (and one from how the others
perform). 
*** or you can return this post "Fwd" and not even read Weil, which leads
me to think you don't thank Blanchot either. [subtle da Vinci smile].

A presto, t/hen?




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