Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:13:12 +0000
Subject: Re: MB: Them "Limit-Experience($)",...


I tell you: I think Blanchot is really important, and his thought deserves a proper hearing. I've subscribed to this
group for a copuple of years now.I haven't a clue who all those who engage on the group are. I fear it does Blanchot
no favours. I get a sense of self-indulgence, self-promotion...... a game going on. Maybe, if one really wants to
talk about Blanchot and his significance which is immense, there's another place apart from the hopeless group. Can
anyone suggest one?

Dr M Purcell





s m wrote:

> ...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
> --------------------------><-------------------------------------------------
> 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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