File spoon-archives/blanchot.archive/blanchot_1999/blanchot.9902, message 43


From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: MB: Billy Budd
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:50:36 -0500 (EST)


Billy,
 All these masks now days, it is confusing me much. You are not the BB
that responded to me on the Heidegger list are you? 
Ariosto

"I am myself the matter of my book."
   Montaigne

Myself, I am 34 years old and have droped in and out of university over
the years. I understood in my own way what you wrote and I have no
problems with anonymity. There is a hermetic reserve in Blanchot that i
have a lot of sympathy for... Allow me to slide with the
thoughts of the moment which were on Derrida's essay _Parages_ and
touch base with the unavowable community thread. He writes that the
notion of a _recit_ in Blanchot is a new thinking of the citation of
the eternal return which "repeats the ultimate affirmation in the mode
of fragmentation" (_Infinite Coversation_ p. 159) 

Pieces from the ruins of the I, disaster as ecstasy? 

This is a speech which renders repetition "parodic" because it "says
repetition as an affirmation that is unidentifiable and
unrepresentable, an affirmation impossible to recognize, and because it
ruins repetition by giving it back, in the guise of a sort of
indefinite murmur, to the silence that speech in turn ruins by giving
silence to be heard as the speech that, from the most profound past,
from the furthest future, has always already spoken as a speech ever
yet to come."

Fragmentary speech, barely speech--speech at the limit.

In page 24 of _Parages_, the eternal ring releases an alliance without
debt, a gift without credit.

Ariosto 


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