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I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

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Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, fi...

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Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what has a...

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Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize; whos...

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A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains...

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It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes without saying that the choice...

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Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put betwe...

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For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put into question is precisely the quest f...

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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise n...

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And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you sinc...