Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:43:42 -0800 (PST)
From: twall-AT-oz.net (Thomas Wall)
Subject: MB: Literature and the Right to Death


I wanted to add to an earlier comment by Ian concerning the "likeness" of
the word to a thing and his suggestion that we emphasize the "likeness": I
believe that Blanchot gets closer to the "original ambiguity" or "ultimate
vicissitude" [Davis trans. p 60] of literary language by noting that in
literature a word is more LIKE a thing than a thing IS a thing.
Literature, or what is called literature, is the way this likeness presents
itself [final paragraph of LRD] neither as meaning nor (thingly)
materiality but a deeper and more intimate potential than (ontological)
possibility.

Thomas Wall