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Cixous
and the
7TH of April,
2005,1 was in Arcachon, my Arcachon
in Blanchot's Death Sentence. I had the sad good fortune of
of Veils, yes, the first draft, the "very
finding again the manuscript
The
one
first,"
in from
blown
for
as
soon
as
far,
very
"from
reach possible
you
show
very
far,"
you
say,
write
you
say it seems
yourself,
form
or
or
kind
body
itmay be, I recognize you, one recognizes you by the veritable shower of
truth, with the showering of thought from the first breath you throw us
off our feet,
sad good
fortune
a
unexpectedly,
but good
manuscript
fortune
whose
every
in truth
feature
to come
leaps
into
upon
view,
again,
and
all
the graphisms,
in the house but dazzling,
I see at once
apocalypse
see
I
and
nothing
everything
Voil? Veils has come back!
found in a bottle I say to myself)
(I am going to reread the manuscript
a
an
to
-One has
bottle like
imagine
airplane deprived of a pilot you say
As for you, you would write the sentence
like this:
-I am going to reread the manuscript
found in a bottle
in a bottle?
-You think that you find yourself
a
as
-In
It is
if I am in a machine.
Klein Bottle, perhaps.
-Who's
Who
-For,
etc.
piloting?
readable,
spectacular
way,
you
have
always
staged
the
game
of
your
"I"
caught
unawares,
despite
your
always
standing
guard, inscribing so many times the theater of the drama in which you
are the blind man and the
you, unlike me, stage the irruption
prophet,
to say into your inner forum
of foreign forces into your course, Imean
*
"Le manuscrit
in H?l?ne
volant," originally
Cixous,
Insister, ? Jacques Derrida
published
45-80
for
thank Editions
Galil?e
Galil?e,
(Paris: Galil?e,
2006),
(? Editions
2006). We
to publish
as
An earlier version of this text was first delivered
this translation.
permission
a lecture
comme
at the conclusion
in June,
of the conference
"L'?v?nement
2005,
?criture:
Lire
Cixous
et Derrida
se lire,"
organized
by Marta
Segarra
at the University
Barcelona.
New Literary History, 2006, 37: 15-46
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NEW
own
[for]?your
foreign
to
say:
I mean
yourself.
forces,
you
fight
your
over
own
LITERARY
you
polemos,
you
yourself,
tear
HISTORY
with
fight
apart.
yourself
let it be seen by the people who follows you and who looks
to witness
this tearing to
longingly at you, and whom you call upon
an
to
And
this
pieces.
people,
immensity, you say You, you name it and
And
you
bring
As
it toward
for me,
you,
I
embroidered
with
name
the
You.
and
my
keep
shatterings
in
parentheses.
gaps
of me
sewn
in my
up
text,
for you, you pick your seams apart and pick fights with yourself,
you lacerate, you take your life by the throat and throttle it, you strike
blows against yourself,
like a king of Greek tragedy.
to
Each time I say
myself: how Greek he is, and how strange that is.
to the secret origin of his very
And then: this is due to his antiquity,
-As
at the
had been
soul, his psyche
forged
of the Judeogreek
and Christian worlds, at the
gives birth to the firstborn of the condemned-to
of the Greek Jews.
let us view Veils, let us open the still virgin book,
still uncut, kept hidden by Mr. Galilee's
instinctive wish to
unanalyzed,
hand over to the reader a volume still in its chrysalis. I half-open
it (yes,
*
I confess,
this copy, my copy, is intact) to page 25. Here begins your
chant and as I leaf through without
tearing it, I see through the portal
ancient
being. As if
confluence
conflictual
moment
of clash that
die, J. C. orj. D., king
(Look, for example,
that
the
act
first
to page 40
announced
Before
of
the verdict,
of
you
rivalry
least
three
itself
place
play
is
con
altogether
trove
my
will
have
sorts
by
your
voices,
up
verdict.
between
rsed
Cruel accounting
[42]. Dispute.
the
first
intratextual
words
by
(I'm obliged
usual,
this
his
multibegun,
opening
the
pretenders-to
of vers "succeed"
each
a mask
as
this way
as well
a little
each
at
where
the-status-of-first-words,
other,
arena
situating
pretender
itself in a
(or character)
situating
(or character, or font), like this:
mask
i
Sero
Toward
Before
[Vers] Buenos
Aires, November
te amaui
24-29,
1995
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THE
FLYING
MANUSCRIPT
17
bottom
-To
you
the
page.2
succeed
other
oneself/each
[Se
that's
succ?der],
what
awaits
me,
tell me)
Now
I ask my
mother
"to
cut
Veils
for me."
Now I go down to the kitchen where my mother has rung the bell. She
has prepared an orange juice for me. I say very loud: you will have to cut
a book for me.
I have
I say I feel good with you. She says: Me,
are
not
I
She
I'm
What
you saying?
says:
say.
completely.
disappeared
visible.
very
To
to the manuscript
of Veils, I had forgotten
back
the
in your hand in a drawer and it came back, by itself, while I
in Barcelona
around the impossible theme of this colloquium
manuscript
was musing
for which I take up the pen today
theme of a very impossible
almost impossible
impossible
colloquium
to
not
to
it
this
invitation
accept
accept
impossible
impossible
(you did
a
on
commentary
this
to the two of us
wise,
in Fourmis)
Two words
about
Iwill come,
merci.
merci,
addressed
first
of
(you again!)
Marta:
in Passions)
in advance
Or
else
alas.
Alas,
for Marta
Segarra,
Marta
title
all,
in advance
to whom
and
said
you
yes
perhaps,
naturally.
months
me
without
must
One
very
well
[mois
obey,
sans
one
moi],
is
me
within
drowning,
me
one
but
grabs
not
on
without
to
the
one
is obliged with
in
the words
watchword,
very well, one drowns
to
to yourself. You
obedience.
One bends
your will that is hidden
obey the order given. Who
yourself
gives? It can only be life. And
we
thereupon
agree.
can
say
that
think on death,
again
you
say?
you think on death [ tupenses ? la mort] the way you say Iwrite
on
[j'?cris au r?ve]. That is to say: on the force of dreaming,
dreaming
to its address, with its help. But you think living you
under its impulsion,
think of living, to live is that, I say
-I mean
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-But
who's
HISTORY
of
talking
go, we're
we
Here
LITERARY
say
you
living!
once
over,
starting
we
again,
shift
the
agreement,
yet I am sure that we agree you hold onto life like no one else, you want
it all totally including
the end that does not exist, ?I
hold onto life like
no one else in flesh and bone,
to life in person but not the other, the
we
here
unknown,
we
go
start
over
the
endless
with
the
words
word
that
and
sparkle
mystify,
The
autrement.
otherwise,
that
conversation
on mighty
and insubstantial
food
food, phantom
and phantasm. We
rich, prepared by imagination
words.
will-o'-the-wisp
otherwise,
you
say,
For
is the
not you but the other who lies [c'est l'autre qui ment].
So yesterday 2003 we reached an accord, you with me,
as a way of outsmarting
scene of conversation,
the difficulty
if
and the time. Of diminishing
fatigue
possible, by dividing
well-tested
already
us
between
and
one
that
day
feeds
we'll
is
to imagine a
of the theme
it.A practice
to
have
example
truth.
It
talk
about.
and
obscure
I was
togethering.
unknown
circumstances
keep
twisting
word
together
and
of worm
verse.
This
on
feeling
this
earth
am
a semblance
merely,
weakness
senses,
was mine,
of impotence
who
under
laboring
of
sans,
of my
step
fright
that
of
is
sensation
self
learning
before
obviously.
of
sans.
the
new
to walk/work
It is I
sensation
senses
otherwise
of
all
my
impotence.
of Veils made
its ghostly return from
It was then that the manuscript
out of one of my drawers where it had been sleeping utterly forgotten by
me but not by the gods, quite obviously. Voil? it comes back and not just
once
but
twice.
breakdown
in
of itwith
the
oblivion.
I made
its
acquaintance
or
took
are listening to me or
by air mail from the
30-11-95
cognizance
reading me, here's
Aspen Towers Hotel,
of Veils, first draft, first spurt
the manuscript
[premier jet]. The
de los
in a jet plane above the Cordillera
of Veils scribbled
manuscript
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THE
FLYING
MANUSCRIPT
19
Andes.
into
sea water.
your
I note
this
course?has
because
always
in a jewel,
your
a
been
of
way
reading
mode
fashion/'a
not
me?and
of
just
sets
as one
setting,
of
me,
a stone
a magnifying
of
feeling
For
rarity.
that
knows
everyone
your
are
works
in
the
vast
Send
(2)
missive
it
was
that
away,
right
here mine.
keeping,
(3) I add
accompanied
by
is
to
say,
turn
it over
request
keep
to
secret
secret,
another's
intended
from
by the
myself,
an
effort,
either
not
to cry
or
not
to call
you
right
away
to
tell
you
distance.
me
not
to
open
it.
. .
you
say. Right
away
the
strange
letter.
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LITERARY
HISTORY
Moses"
are
you
will
that
awaiting,
to
known
be made
one
you
or
day
and
other,
is that:
know
won't
"you
even
escape,
if the
is favorable,
verdict
that
is, negative"
Veils 32).
(VoilesM;
lower
as
corner,
himself
and
injunction
possible
I will
"as
low
as
to the
"as
written
again,
in my
house,
or
then understand
if after
or
possible
executes
almost."
life"
if after
by
All
in
will
on
the
see
how
I myself
lower
he
will
corner,
addresses
this
find
the
lowest
almost
what
successively
I had not
then understood,
life."
You
letter. Later
mountains
after
as if after life?in
a race by sea, by
life.
life.
the
promise
and
(the)
reason,
or
instinct.
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THE
FLYING
MANUSCRIPT
me.
-Promise
-I
21
not
-Do
you.
promise
-Until
open.
return.
my
-Until
return.
your
not
Do
not
do
open,
read.
respect.
I say,
-The
interdiction,
-The
interdiction
sense
makes
of what
The
stokes.
it take
is a
-It
general
you
the
say.
interdiction
Never
will
it have been seen, I have never seen in history?never
a titanic battle against
Freud have seen in his life?such
will
nuncle
my
himself.
a combattitant
are
-You
I say.
Don't go thinking, you friends who are listening to this little story, that
in me.
the reiteration of the demand
signified an absence of confidence
a
or
one
to
at
On the
odds with
hand, reiteration has always been
party
structure
the
more
of
once.
than
the
the
promise:
a week
Once
"once
let's
and
say. On
for
all"
the
other
to be
has
renewed
if there
hand,
is
the
stake
For
promise
do
the
alreadythen
[dejalors]
not
this
injunction
supposed
not
against
explanation.
so.
I never
asked
gale
was
You
him
to
of
destiny.
a verdict.
open,
too
for
I could
imagine
an
At
stake
propose
diverse
explanation,
then
was
a verdict.
more
At
one
than
I will
interpretations.
never.
promised
it. He
me:
This depicts
reminds
it at least??No."
the two
"you didn't open
am
to
I
This could be compared
characters.
many familiar
describing.
models
of you not to,Adam, Eve, Abraham,
But that is not it.
Bluebeard.
It's
something
else.
the explanations,
there is one I can give. It does not have to
Among
to share a text that he
do with the secret: his customary
reluctance
to term. The rigor
deems to be still imperfect or not altogether
brought
of his signature. The need to be impeccable?as
much as possible. All
to him.
the other explanations
belong
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LITERARY
HISTORY
-Why
Among
departure
a distant,
distant
very
to Ren?
for
that
voyage,
he
would
to H. C?
before his
write
text
the
almost
tone,
desperate
the
will
everyone
have
heard
it
well?caused
quite
It was
as
long
the
and
first
time
that
sent
you
me
an
not
envelope
to be
so
opened
until?
itwas indeed the first time Iwas not sure. Imight have thought
the only and the last?
It comes back to me today that the same scene took place one other
time. Itwas inMay 2003. You were returning from a faraway trip. In front
of you the announcement
of a trip without
fixed harbor, without
measure.
to the archives I
You had written
for a colloquium
devoted
was
at
to
at
the
which
take
the end of that
BN,
deposited
supposed
place
a
me.
text
whose
title
tell
This
time
it
is
into my
you
May,
deposited
That
it was
hands
that
written
from
opened.
you
from
"send,"
you
a very
distant
Except
didn't
and
say: you
unless.
it at
open
other
wholly
in
interior,
promised.
least. This
More
scene
envelope.
once
you
us. -I
than
depicts
text
this
distance,
great
closed
to
Not
call me
swear
be
and
to
you
is it going
-How
about
the
translators.
to be possible
On
the
one
to translate
hand.
in dribbling
around translation.
pleasure
the little football player in you.
I didn't open the envelope.
How would I have opened
it?
With a knife, you will say to me,
On
this sentence?
the
other
you
You worry
take
great
in your equivocal
guise.
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THE
MANUSCRIPT
FLYING
23
comes
into the study with a large kitchen
My mother
hand. It is for Veils.
-Why do you say that you are not visible? I say.
-Because
one
seeing
lot of
each
other
here.
you're
Maybe
the
visible.
I say.
-Maman?
are inspired?
-You
-I
not
we're
is not
who
in her
knife
love
it that
-Like
the
you're
She smiles.
here.
cats.
I look at her.
Two different
I see what
She smiles.
you
mean,
For a long
time.
yes.
19)
where
the most
and
you
de"
"Au-dedans
moi"
to
interior
are
as
at once
always
the
strongest,
that
is,
the most
fort
da.
say
"within
and
more
is an
me."
the
than
sheltering
As
for me
I
yours.
usually
one who
is
Au-dedans
right.
en.
of
expression
are
You
use
"en
is more
says my mother.
it.
to be opened
envelope
the first envelope.
before
the BN
when
without
authority.
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LITERARY
HISTORY
be
so
These
are
and
so often.
seriously,
Cruel
be
words
sad"
say. That's
you
to disobey you?
But you when
I say to you:
on
command.
we
Thereupon
co-mandate
We
don't
too,
saddles
like
just
be
those
you
of tenderness.
every feeling
you.
whom
sad.
not
How
to
obey
you?
not
happen
never
to all
addressed
you
-You
sadness, which
saddening
"Don't
mean:
sad."
one
over
argue
another.
their
observe
Don't
"forget,"
forget,
you
you
the who,
the
Words
motives,
you point
say
to me.
the
how
out
You
of
the
in command.
command,
we
words.
their
movement.
They
are
never
still,
they
die.
Mystique. The word mystique takes hold of him. For example one day in
in whose
1989, a certain use of the word mystical,
vicinity, nosing
around,
he
meets
up
with
Pascal,
Montaigne.
this is authority,
the foundation
of authority. No reason can
Mystical:
now he's
be given! That's
the way it is. This word mystical,
pleased,
Jacques Derrida, when he plays with this word. What does itmean, what
will one say of this play? Philosophically?
A playful vein, played out in words, circulates
through all his philoso
phy. Philosophy
always
in translation.
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FLYING
Two
MANUSCRIPT
words
The
bad words
one
words:
Words
words.
regarding
25
between
German
us?often
words.
in his philosophical
work are always word moments.
on evil
can also be good. But there is an interdiction
must
evoke
them
a distance
from
and
beware
pronouncing
them.
are
There
words
are
mots?there
of
the
power,
There
passwords.
to have
to write
the
words,
magic
I am
two-words.
going
are
bons
of
book
next
words,
French.
is
German?Tragen?Tragen
ear.
Heidegger's
the word
Tragen.
word.
preferred
The
extraordinary
Derrida's
ecstasy:
that
play
he,
Ausgetragenes
He
Heidegger,
Kind.
bring
tragen. To bear
this isme with
takes
it
from
practices
bear
and
To
on
to
in oneself,
bei sich
is different. This,
he bears in him
The
word
m?glich
for
secret
example?its
powers.
crying
often:
"das
ist
ja
How
unm?glich."
to communicate
to you
the
the exclamativity,
the tonicity of the language and the body, in
the idiomaticity,
the supplement
of ja the hammering
of the
German,
it to you over the telephone.
I imitate Omi.
un, the sigh? I communicate
accents,
out
I sound
semantic
philosophic
for
you
family
nose,
all
the marvelous
and
taste,
your
German
your
zophic
reserves
superphilosophical
refinement,
you
in the
merely
have
ear your
guessed,
with
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LITERARY
HISTORY
You
so
these
subtle
very
idiomatic
connotations
that
cause
to melt
you
one
into
another the verbs to want/to will to be able to to savor, that mix and only
on the German
I
tongue the taste of self and the taste of the object.
would
like to know how far you are going to be able to go (still) further
in French.
-M?gen? That's to want or to will and to be able to, to have the power
It is:
[vouloir et pouvoir]. What do you want to know? says my mother.
one wants to do but
difficult to translate. It is: to be able to do something
that one is not sure of being able to do. I would really like to be able to
translate
m?gen.
mother.
says my
es nicht
I wir k?nnten
sister
and
aber wir
My
ausgehen,
m?gen
an
There
is
with
Eri,
always
uncertainty,
always.
m?ge
das
gern,
that means
we
like
that.
Wir
das
m?gen
nicht,
to
it's not
our
liking.
a hundred
it's impossible,
it's not at all possible
Das ist unm?glich,
a
not
out
ist
it's
of
hundred.
Das
100%
percent.
m?glich,
possible,
in Unm?glichkeit?
is the willing or wanting
-Where
to
There's
be
done!?Ganz
nothing
unm?glich, it's utterly
-Unm?glich?
impossible.
it seems possible.
M?glich,
-And Verm?gen? the verb?It
not
obligatory,
possession.
When
a fortune,
cost
there's
means
possibility,
Das
mother.
Das
I could
but
Verm?gen:
it's
that's
to
mother.
says my
-Not
me,
Jacques
Derrida.
-It's
It's
really
an
elastic
word
says my
to my
mother,
overwhelmed.
liking.
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love.
able
work
makes
is written,
is no
there
comes
that
present
amazement
it
to be
begins
too
say
in
late,
it with
other
the
take
We
reading.
seasoning
something
everything
too
to
itself
late": by
to
able
Fortunately
is never
It
reading.
to
present
constant,
back,
"it is never
this expression
swing ahead.
in
too-late
than
little
one
what
pay-attention
take
Let's
Inodiare. Ennui
someone
who
this
speaking,
someone
down.
who
barely hides
pays
is so
attention
pays
attention
true:
odium,
we
hatred.
One
say.
to what
the
guy
to
he
who
says.
pays
the
who
one
have
no
who
awakens
love
for
are
at
never
one
On
the
dictionary.
that
side,
to what
to where
On
the
attention
other;
love.
compassion,
boredom.
Here
guarantees
The
excludes
I
[boredom],
Carefulness,
those
that
say
you
ennui
he
puts
other
says
words
the
live.
for
pain,
At
love
ill,
to
the
and
read.
nothing
attention.
attracts
who
words,
same
hatred.
To
time
take
is
in the secret of
to attention,
attention
the
his
side,
is not brewing
of
he
It's
pains
read
because
to
live.
everything
he
shows,
Learn
(in
to
other
teaches,
take
pain
words:
the
then you
for good
takes
learns,
in order
see
to
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and
28
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and
submission.
LITERARY
HISTORY
The
together.
so like to be able
Iwould
I to myself.
(I sense
to want
It will be necessary
sans
sans
knowing
sans
certainty
I sense
presumption)
very
well
2001.
of
those
"Comment
one
pronounce
without
J. D.,
signed
untranslatables:
your
You
internally.
Clearly
sentences
peer
voulez-vous
of
que je
sentences,
your
without
one
equivalent
meure?"
you
say.
listeners
incredible
to
thinking,
ment
of
the
provocation
threaten
reassure,
sacrifice,
need
for
you
meaning,
to
thinking,
defiance
go
fate
to
spend
of mastery,
one
better.
oneself
un
admonish
Fate:
Pour
in
Hebrew.
You have just sent fate to its fate, played one of your turns on for, that
rimmed
round the pour, this French pour whose
disseminal
a
to
red.
the
blood
fore,
dissemination,
you brought
pourple
opening
one
"if
On this Spring day of 2001, a seminar Wednesday,
you say:
day I
is, pour,
pour means
to think what
then I could
perhaps
[pourrais-je] die while
me
to
is
[ce qui m'arriv?]!'
beginning
happening
you say is under the care of if [tout ce que tu dis est sous si].
Everything
to die? / How
How do you want me to die? / How can I be expected
ever can I die? you say to the people who follow you. You say these
terrible and scintillating
things to your seminar, you throw them into the
knew
balance,
them
what
you
between
them
oscillate
care
and
above
carefree,
the
heads
impossible
That
is what
you
do:
you
sow
terror.
of
your
to
take
listeners,
you
you
flex
literally?what
sower
sows.
The
sower
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himself
loves
and
and
you
not want
cannot
for
weeps
want
ahead,
29
you
to be
not
in
himself,
advance,
to be
do
not
want
lost
one
second
over,
wept
from
are
you
far
want
you
from
view,
so
out
you
when
hearing
itself.
same
the
to me.
happen
yes,
the
versa,
hear
what
hear
that
cannot
you
that
we
is what
or
(remember
to
response
want
not
do
not
pain
or
on
it. I am
at least most
meconium
want,
you
I hear
up with dying,
some
with
vice
it for me.
that
to want
to die?
or
the
in wishing
know
as
Even
want,
choose
floor,
do
you
you
to die.
the
of
tongue,
love me
his
tortuous
on
love.
testimony)
been
to each
says
it to you?
telling
and
one
every
of
I love me
as
in knowing
love, since
seminar
my
who
love's
not
do
you
for yourselves
what
newborn
what
if I succeeded
I tell you,
Love,
what
I do not want
perhaps,
Testimony
want,
if. Unless.
Except
are.
I hear
The
birth.
want
beneath
say,
Love
Like
time.
afraid.
you
not
do
you
that
circulates
you wish,
not a magician.
the
well
very
drive
death
punishment
are
If you
que je meure?
for me
is it possible
I know
yes,
voulez-vous
s&y.-Comment
assured.
Rest
you
To
do
not
you
me
want
also
to
to what
say yes
He
is
One
hears
How
people
into
more
hear
the
one
than
pour
voice,
it is year
year,
-You're
one,
depending
sense
in one
playing
this evening,
the
again
first
or
to win,
or
once
the
who's
always
on
part,
turning
It is springtime
raining.
in
worrying
one
whether
the
for
of
hears
the
or
other.
doesn't
other.
second
about
winning,
century,
the rounds
of the
yours.
qui pour
gagne,
I say
to
you
Kippor did you say? But how do you expect, how can you want
anyone to translate you? you say And you? I say. Do you want it?How?
How much? To read you? You who set all texts spinning. All Testes. All
Heads. Who
else, in the whole French
language, will have ever been
a
out
such
sentence? You really stuck it to us that
capable of throwing
day
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HISTORY
day, crying up your sleeve and smiling at the disarray you will have sown
in the heart of your hermeneuts.
One day like another. One other day
like each of your days. Nothing
special. Every day is perhaps this day that
is perhaps
the day If [le jour Si].
sentence
I cite this giant of an unsigned
to my daughter with
When
the philosophical
ear, her voice says to me: "Derrida would be speaking
of a kind of generalized
homonymy." He alone would say this sentence,
from out of his uninterrupted
solitude, he, in his solitude, would
say:
"how do you want me to die / how can I possibly die." One might
then
hear resonating Blanchot's
complaint mixed with the fear and the pain
of Jacques Derrida. Who
is capable
of death? Such a thing is not
mean
me. No, it is the other who has
wants
You
who
death.
Not
possible.
for my death, the desire of my fear.
the responsibility
so haunted
"He alone" this Sentence
would
say. He alone,
other,
I don't
by
know
-I am listening
know
-You
think? Me,
toi en
c'est
So we
croix
-I don't
these
the
know how
weave
thought
itself.
that I hear
other.
it can be translated,
settings.
a conventional
between
text
your
little
cut
one
the
the
say.
que j'entends].
ourselves
by
more.
into French.
you worry,
All of
nested
I have
to your
you
yourself,
even
him
forlorns
I say, I listen
to hear
how
scandalize
whom,
to you,
-You
who
I fish
slow,
them
-You're
tions,
out
them
the
lecture
a
I'm
because
for
mode,
the
the
whereas
pedagogue,
difference
ones
who
are
you,
you
loose.
the one
interrogative,
he's the
-And
and
I see
When
concept.
pedagogical
mine!
In
saying
one,
that?!
(pronounce
all intona
etc.)
exclamatory,
the almost
one
vibratory
disappeared
to
according
"on a
a little Mallarm?
make
another
round
of
the
year,
it's our
eternal
that
dispute
he
needs
to wind
mine
[Mort
ou Mors]
the thirteenth
one
round
can
never
tell,
it's
a circus,
the
one
of
Circumfession,
he turns around
the bed of
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with a desolate
his mother with compassion,
circoncupiscence
belief of the "believers in days of old" I have already told you
but
times,
knowledge
it, he
appeases
were
they
nothing
that
those
envies
to
going
be
were
who
for the
so many
in
tranquil
reunited?in
the
paradise?
not
it is not
to
-Have
have
But
alterity.
-There
renounced
already
in what
singularity
ten
whirls.
merry-go-round
-That
me. The
the
little
will
me
no
longer
that
says
to be someone
has
the
have
me
me
to keep
me
any
in
its
mortal
absolutely
into an
trace. To merge
me.
alive. We'll
talk about
it again
in
in 2001.
years,
each death of a loved one, with each life that passes we make the
round of belief in place
I am running
[cours] in place today he says, mail, mail, mail
[courrier,
With
courrier]
courrier,
My father lives in me, I say. And his little me? he says. His great me
me I say. Do you realize, if I forgot? I would
then make him die.
me
-In
still
father
I say.
lives,
This
-I
my
in
remember
my father. He
very
well
he
says
for
the
day
of my
sister's
son's
Bar
I remember
Mitzvah,
very well
this
memory.
Our
merry-go-round,
circumversation
you
ageless
or
say,
young,
I say.
It could
Right
Portrait:
common
The
after
from
gesture
gesture
be
called
circumversion.
that we make
the
French
together
language,
differently
a kind
of
effraction
together
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HISTORY
"Nature"
his
?,"
fugitive
He
always
already
required
hand
to
according
cantata
on
the
to
body
Jacques
there.
Derrida.
to take shape.
tame
the
chaos
His
Whereas
I need
into
"as for's,"
his
case
in my
"quant
is
paper
sentence.
To
the
He
the most
trap
words.
remarks
the word
You
"trap."
use
it all
time.
me
catches
at
snares,
I admit
noticed
I
trap,
I
it,
trap,
he
fishes
I track,
out.
words.
For
him
instead
it's
vocables,
have
you
that?
do
-Why
you
say
"vocable"
so
often?
Me,
never.
You
right
away
with
The Origin of Geometry, you initiate it and probably much earlier. It's with
it I remember.
The Origin that I remarked
Your vocablation.
Your
vocation,
your
vocabulation.
incantatory.
/ am
It's
he
"knows
(following)
six
been
manuscript
how."
the Worm
pages
of Veils. You
. . .
le Ver
suis
Je
I announced
since
thought maybe
. . .
the
second
I had forgotten,
return
of
the
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I was merely
as
just
and
he
wan
meaning/
Yet
ting
another
I am
says:
to
question
Him,
you
know
dire"
vouloir
one
what
wants
he's
for
[Pardon
like,
not
say].
sentence
that
would
require
of
chapter
was
words
the
fateful
scene,
Urteil,
a dark
Das
Kafka's,
to me
out
acting
Verdict,
. . .
coming
it is a
breathing.
of
as
But
explanation.
he
soon
the message.
de ne
"Pardon
pas
homonymie
manuscript
when
it on purpose
doing
as
suspension
to receive
want
case
this
without
delaying,
is a
there
doesn't
in
33
in his
seminar.
tale,
example
that Spring
It was
of mortal
2001
question
auto
him of itsmeanders.
For me it is once again
immunity. Iwas reminding
father
who
himself
suicided
the
other his internal and
my
gets
Georg
by
external father. I know this horror by heart. The last blow, the last page,
would be a premonitory
version of Etats d'?me de la psychanalyse. It is a
are
"suicide."
You
eats and drinks death, his
magical
killing me. Georg
death, with an insane appetite. To please his father. He dies for him. He
lets himself fall off a bridge. During
this time, on page 9 o??tats d'?me,4
he makes
"to
the
suffer"
pronouns
personal
turn
around
the
the
semantic
variations
It
"cruelly."
is
of
suffering,
the
verb
hurting
too much.
It's
everywhere.
and
word
In diesem Augenblick ging ?ber die Br?cke ein geradezu unendlicher Verkehr.
the act of falling off a bridge in my car is
says Jacques Derrida,
-Me,
one
So
recurrent
of my most
. . .
I answer
him:
And
he
answers
me:
phantasms.
. . .
is in his books.
Everything
digression,
sis. True
and
"confidences,"
droll
they
you
"incipit"
are
addressed
say
as
to
they
to
the
States
say.
each
One
one
General
knows
of
of
all
everybody.
Psychoanaly
about
your
Not
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are
you
of
fun
making
division
structural
of
and
everybody
the
me,
every
one.
each
LITERARY
But
cruel
implacable,
HISTORY
to
it's
recall
the
Not
destinerrancy.
and everyone,
that you don't make fun a little of everything
including
are
All
the
fatalist
is even the
Jacques
yourself.
Jacques's
digressers,
name
proper
of
deconstructor.
every
a little,
you
also
line,
But digressing,
standable.
You
will
knows
have
French
of.
capable
not
does
usage
"First
said
like. That's
under
come
must
Next
the
. . ."it was
in confidence
digression,
who
thousand
psychoanalysts
if you would know who is capable
knowing
straight-arrow
descartized.
to the
wink
The
however.
necessity,
you.
traditional
are
We
a fated
It is not
say.
the
sentence,
One
aflower
is digressions. Mallarm?'s
of the morning
You
would
glory.
we
invent
the
verb
day
digre. Digre
second
come
had
of death
gift,
in the hope of
and what death is
at
digression,
so
least
one
believes, on the promise of these first words. Will anyone have found it?
One has to imagine the faithful and assiduous
reading going through
this book listening to this address of genius right to the end, a reading
left behind,
thrown off course, dragged onto "indirect paths," the "other
cleared
paths"
and
Freud,
by
henceforth
translated,
recognized,
the
carried beyond knowledge,
beyond
by Jacques Derrida,
of
with
the
into the space
launched
foreseeable,
energy
undecidability
revives the value
of this Indirektheit in which
Derrida,
he, Jacques
reinscribed
overlooked
virtue
ness,"
a new
irrectitude,
a
in
uncovered
"non-straightness"
live action,
or
at
the
name.
An
active
(which
non-straightness
does
"non-right
of
quick
the
and named
not
mean
non
passive)
to good
of
of
subject,
with
by Freud
and
virtus
Kafka
assassins,
within
assassins
would
say.
To
ourselves.
But
bound
this
is not
easy
the
beyond
we
when
beyond,
you
carry
our
toward
say,
the
gift
but
none
is given,
can
gift
he
of
discontinuous
cannot
make
it. He
indirection.
But
can
to do
wish
he
so,
can
want
he
can
to
wish
it for himself.
give
it happens
this
gift,
none
that someone
can
command
may
have
it. This
this gift,
gift
gives
it will have
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been
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or by whom,
granted
a traceable
can
One
heritage.
imagine
attributed
where,
it, one
must
at
least
to
try
imagine
is what he does.
it. That
affirmation,"
one
comes
who
appears
on
forward
its own,
her
and
own,
he
as of a land in advance,
its promise
and beyond,
before,
glimpses
would
rootless,
aerial,
(he
say "spectral")
transparent
departing from
of
which
(and he underscores
departing from [? partir], an affirmation
the
one
for
departing-from,
from)
gives departing
is his dream.
not
does
"a thinking
arrive
there,
as
of life is possible,"
soon
as
it is
it
given
on
another
foot."
at
myself
Interrupting
salute
the States General
thanks
Why
give
I don't
know,
not
certainly
something
Here
this point,
having
of Psychoanalysis.
to some
to
begin
salute,
myself?to
in another
namely,
the
form,
inaugural
hardly
begun,
I would
General
of Psychoanalysis?
or who
which
what,
title,
as I have
while
done,
just
States
with,
then,
beginning,
which
of Psychoanalysis.(45;
....
(37;
authorizes
to
I said,
like,
253)
me?
them,
thanking
256-57)
is the
of the
and
thus of
question
principle
act that is
to
event.
the
supposed
produce
the
. .
(49;259)
In the end, you will not have had the time to begin, but this you knew in
advance. What does itmatter. It is the before-there
and the beyond-there
of the beyond-there
that interest us. Toward which you will have indirected
that make us suffer cruelly. Cruelty,
us, by loosening the vice of judgments
what
is it?Where
does
it begin? Where
does
it end? Thought?
Life?
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HISTORY
of Veils.
of the manuscript
In the meantime
the
one
to
calling
of
Dozens
around me,
other.
sketchpads,
of
witnesses
the
Derrida's
Jacques
books
notepads,
disorder
text
from
unfolding
countless
themselves,
to text.
In text-?-text,
fortyears.
This
say,
fills me with
overabundance
no
ten,
a hundred
say
and
ten
Imust multiply
despair.
and
still more,
of thoughts of words
keep
one must tend toward
humanly
impossible,
to tend,
it, to attempt
always attempted
alive your worlds
life by,
my
to
in order
to
attempt
of sentences
it's impossible
I have
the superimpossible,
to tend to attempt
is the
minimum.
faber
graphical
More.
Magis.
not?
Why
Magic?
If I too were
what
admission,
I am
paper?
Suddenly
I do
would
She
Aletheia.
reappears
with
communication
a cat,
these
mountains,
Exhumes.
rummages.
This
the manuscript.
the
have
like you
with
been,
by your
trees,
Rushes
time, I am going
own
of
grottos
all
around.
to enter
into
revenant.
Folio
47)
one
trembles,
one
has
received
message
from
a dead
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MANUSCRIPT
FLYING
37
us)
object before
Folio 44)
no
But
nary
that
was
on
depends
love
not
sip, mixed
to me,
operates,
in me,
that we
chance
encounter
the
with
me
through
happening
no
with
indifferent
way
essence
the
ran
isolated,
something
vicissitudes
same
had
a shiver
that was
thing
It
suspect.
sooner
than
palate
not
do
and
in me.
crumbs
stopped,
delicious
of its cause.
suggestion
its disasters
inoffensive,
me
by filling
I had
it was me.
with
ceased
encounter
this
of
the
touched
cake,
my
the extraordi
upon
had
invaded
me,
pleasure
at once
And
life's
it made
intent
its brevity
precious
to feel
essence;
in the
illusory,
or rather
this
mediocre,
contingent,
mortal.
before dying
It is thus that, coming out of the drawer, I encountered
the face of the manuscript,
the shape of Jacques Derrida's
hand, whose
saw
at
I
in
I
first
had
the
oblivion.
only the
living presence
forgotten
It never
face.
hand.
to
the
day
awaiting
and
death.
This
to
read
essence
of
this
treasure.
I
contemplated
in me.
It was
was
presence
the
me.
Up
when?
-not
is
to me
occurred
I halted
me
the event
on
in Barcelona
of
reading
the
between
subject
of
by the question
reading,
us, Jacques
of
Derrida
the
that
adventure
and H?l?ne
Cixous
as written,
it is drawritten,
a breathless
self-portrait.
One
sees
the
breath, one sees the wind push the sail, rush the fabric (tissu, one of his
beloved words, that issued him forth from texts, textiles and textguiles in
all genders)
toward the Orient
and toward the north, I would write a
book to de-pict or re-picture
this painting with its quivering
signs that
into
look like they've been hurled from a brush, with its letters changed
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NEW
LITERARY
HISTORY
?4,::^^^>><-A/
il
sown with
the beatings
of wings, of lashes, of see's minutely
living
of
silences.
punctuations,
highly eloquent
Look at this portrait from left to right, from top to bottom,
it can also
be read vertically like a poem?which
it secretly is.One would have to be
able to respect the modest will of the scribe, to remain faithful to the
exact
alignment.
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39
r*e?tt
i^M^^y^
^?
ou mort/fin
[to write/that/might
'
be/from/the
yH'
messiah/truth/unveil
dead/end].
figure/someone/or
figure/other
ing/another
Or to note the last line of the first "stanza," that is to say, the last verse,
later, he will have done a
just as later, eight years or eight poems
a
of
Celan
hold
poem, grabbing
reading
instinctively of the last verse. Die
Welt ist fort, ich mu? dich tragen, this verse made
forever immortal for
been
raised
lifted
read,
invoked,
up,
gathered,
having
praised by your
artist's
love
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the
last
vicinity
in
then,
"verse,"
of
Buenos
these
savage
an
Aires,
fin
de
sans
l'histoire?et
of history?and
by
all
the
the
against
worm
shroud]
an arrow
with
charged
raging
appearances.
in
sky
linceul
without
it is not final.
And it is not finished,
Within
reach of these words he fires
momentum
HISTORY
the
rage
protest,
[end
at
hurled
psalms
elevated
LITERARY
of the world,
of history
time,
free
excess
the
express
nor
not-on
the
in this
for
in an
earth,
moment
debtless
launch
himself,
of
the
the
two
the
airs
good
times
or
accusation
and
he
in-between,
and
reproach
bad
airs,
can
the
cry
out
word
of
enough!
enough!
of inheriting.
Enough
the moment
for
since
suffering,
between
airplane,
between
exhaustion
soul's
is always already
Enough
too much.
is no
There
enough.
can't take it
it's always enough of inheriting, isn't it. He
Enough!
more.
want
He
Of
doesn't
(and therefore of
any
anymore.
inheriting
a
to
Of
this
malediction?it's
like
derivative
from
inherit).
giving
-this
Derrida?D'h?ritage
of ancient
truth,
headstrong,
to a
veritage,
to an
demnation,
repetition
overdue
dues,
of
compulsion
of
immemorial,
payment
for
debt,
sin
of
the
owing
con
congenital
decreed
since
time
remains
God,
He
cries
toward
in
he
verse,
cries
of
the
like
vermiformally,
worm,
out,
a vain
not
to
cry,
cry
pray,
an
not
immense
cry,
to
To
pray.
in
alone
cry:
to
the white
pray,
without
of
a vain
sky.
To
response.
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cry,
THE
MANUSCRIPT
FLYING
didn't
Crying
philosophical
fated
against
table
sorrow
from
to
accounts
indebtedness,
contamination
suffer
41
love?even
until
be
evil,
by
the
against
one
to his
He
pain.
more
time,
whoever
the
and
cries,
ineluc
to
death.
the
against
condemnation
settled,
he
for
been
having
person
me
might
this cry
sends
the
have
been
of
someone's
was
who
witness
in some
enveloped
paper,
this
Aires
cry-sigh,
and
vibrant,
kept
for
audible,
perfectly
cry
starts
up
again
out
indignation,
possible
of
consideration
for
others.
as
So
to cause
the
least
suffering.
I believe
I am
to
able
say
as well
that more
than
once,
from
guessing
For
for
again
the
we
exact
too well,
knew
as much
he
from
quotation
the
as
second
I?from
Duino
he
whom
asked
every
elegy?that
angel
euch.
Weh
mir
knowing
and
weh
dir,
sometimes
one
needs
all
messenger
the
same,
to
therefore
misfortune.
In that strange
message
that
was
autumn
a
little
the-text-not-to-be-read.
received
a double
And
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42
NEW
readable
that
message
constituted
the
of
sending
LITERARY
casketed
this
HISTORY
text,
and
that painted
indirectly and directly the state of a soul in danger. Was I
I do not know which gods or signs prevented me then from
anxious?
than in solidarity.
being anxious otherwise
To be sure the closed mailing
signified: "if something were to happen
in
I can say here that at the time I didn't believe
it, I didn't believe
some fatal outcome
at the end of this trip in the New World
(Buenos
Aires, Santiago de Chile-Valparaiso-Sao
Paolo)5
. . ." is a familiar
"If something were to happen
thought in his internal
he
but
forum,
was
He
not
does
finish
the
sentence,
naturally.
a verdict.6
awaiting
absence,
absent-mindedly?
in our
As
from
seminars,
if I had failed,
to dare
to
think?or
that touches,
rise
above
or garments
text
this
Veils?
this
tallith,
on
and
summary
touching,
to want
had failed
thought,
touch
with
my
reader,
touches
not
to touch,
look,
that
for
Except
not dared,
else?to
especially
every
to year.
year
refused,
this
eyes
veils and
extension
of
text
sails
linens
all
of skin, sailcloth
on
on
the
touched,
the
of
question
the
memory,
of
metonymy
in an
distance
dazzled.
absolute
alarmed
into
an
restraint,
all
singularity,
unheard-of
woven
felt or sensed
Having
the
circumcision,
life death
the
genre,
prophecy,
animal
nearer,
prayer,
and
carnal
spiritual
shawl at a respectful
alarm,
in
in appearance,
that
of
it comes
from
in its
of your being
in yourself
the furthest
the
body,
that prayer
an
indecipherable
ones
all,
unique
has no other,
non-unique
things
and
beings.
Tallith.
Tunic,
one
which
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be
than one secret, if not it wouldn't
yet it has more
to
of
less.
The
faithful, your tunic,
your way
thinking nothing
analyst
of the altogether
ask about
the overdetermining
might
importance
it a kind of
traits of your own tallith, which will have earned
peculiar
of
For
all
talliths
and
unlike
them, your tallith is all
song
songs.
among
And
substitution.
of
hymen
could
virginity
have
or
successor,
twin,
or
a descendent,
because
we're
here
fault,
all
have
been
the point
the
calling
to me
it is no
A
not
short),
tortuous,
twisted,
even
a
delay
it
about
But
of
the new
be
a late
the
against
year only
conversion.
I am
do
Anklagen.
to this
question
reply
Is it to God?
d'?tre?
for
Was
Imake
the
in question,
verdict
for
but what
precisely,
an indeterminable
there
sacrileges,
like it to happen
otherwise.
Because
profanations,
lost. But
I'd still
thus and
not
open
up a new
finally
it
that
could
mime
rhythm,
en me
this
is so
era,
the quasi
late," in what
forever
the "so late, too
by sealing
"A so late, too late, sero" (life will have
while
about,
sorry for myself
feeling
complaining
moi-m?me
[me plaignant
to whom
[32-33].
me
longer
unknown
still
the perjuries
so many.
paradoxical,
resurrection
ing
is that
verdict.
35
in the world,
blasphemies,
In any case, as for me,
I'm
and cause my downfall
[que cela m'arrive]
that the time of this verdict,
if it could
I feel
will
times page
twenty
de
plaignant
Would
complaint?
complaint
immediately
to Christ
it even
that
been
so
complain
lui]. Accusing,
Klagen,
to be able
it suffice
to
to have
my
poor
late" when
he
no
further
old
raison
incorrigible
was
"so
addressed
his
"too
to
late,"
finally
speaking
... ? "So late have
sero te amavi,
tarn
nova
et
tarn
I
loved
beauty,
pulchritudo
antiqua
so ancient
and so new," or rather,
because
it is
thee, beauty
late, "late will
already
. . ."A future
I have
loved
thee
once
is wrapped
in the past,
"late"
up
perfect
means
a
it
it's
"so
late"
and
"too
late."
is no
There
does,
(as
always
tautology)
Augustine
lateness
How
in nature?neither
can
one
tolerate
in the
such
thing
itself,
cruel
nor
in the
beauty
same
without
in general.
(Veils)
complaining,
without pitying oneself? Me neither, I do not know this when Iwrite this
sentence and pose this question. Who
is complaining
of whom to whom?
Am I speaking of the beauty of the page or of that of Saint Augustine's
God? Or of the mad beauty of the complaint?
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one
Could
live without
hetero-accusation,
or
complaint
is to say without
that
LITERARY
or
accusation
or
self-accusation,
without
writing,
HISTORY
oneself
accusing
of living, of not living, no time, too late. "I have just reread page 35" I
noted this in a blue notebook
3 January 2004. "I have just received your
sent
in
1995."
complaint
to
But what kind of reading can one perform when one finds oneself
some degree
text
to
within
the
be
read?
invited, lodged,
was
not
it was
me,
not
her,
of
veil
great
fog
us
enveloped
I recounted
this in Savoir, which you, no sooner written, had "lifted" from me (piqu?
was your word) so as to restitch it [repiquer] into your other veil-sail thus
it, by means
assuring
of
this
transplanting,
sumptuous
growth.
Drawing
is a
This
(?tats
myself
psychoanalysts
and
humor
familiar
44-45;
as
considered
you
scene
the
where,
"I don't
question.
dame,
256)
you
with
whether
said
elegance,
liked
you
even
know
to the vast
exactness,
it or
not,
where
vance.
nothing.
knowing?as
I have
nothing
even
I don't
but
nothing,
any more
power,
with,
I don't
than
what,
I know
what
the possible
and
which
title, or who
me
of
or
of the
almost
I ad
the essential?without
regards
anything,
knowing
or
to tell you, and
I know
simply
possible
basically
simple
to admit
how
that not only do I know
know
that, to admit
even know where
to put
me
and
my nonknowledge,
myself,
about
you understand
moment.
(?tats
put
perplexity,
consciously
to
audience
very
dame44-45;
well,
to do
with
the beyond
authorizes
I have
my
questions
of the possible.
me?certainly
been
authorized
about
knowledge
I don't
and
to begin
know,
. . .And
not
yet,
myself.
to address
for the
you,
256-57)
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what
You,
without
one
No
part,
will
can
"Without
say
anything,
Wise
you.
struck with
the
knowing
essential
part?
(44; 256)
is he
anything
same?
the
is the blow
knowing?for
I advance"
contradict
knowing
all
thing here
mystifying
knowing
without
cally
your
mean?but
you
the analyst;
who
can
say
he
advances
part, philosophically
analyti
wise.
before
seeing
in Veils, here
a
text
called
I go "advancing" while
advancing
without
Savoir.
I should
will
From
the
reader's
graces.
good
am I?
to put myself? Where
-Where
I find suddenlly
I
that
resemble
somewhat
floats
between
your
stanzas
in
the
that
manuscript?that
that
to
going
to
Where
to
place
now?
myself,
myself?
place
I that
I heard
read
you
to
Where
place
myself
as one
a look
casts
says
as where
the same
complaint
more
once.
than
proffer
to go, where
where
[o? me mettre,
is not
you
around
for
a crack
am
/who
to hide]
am
one
a mousehole.
to go to be able to delight
in peace therefore without
"me,"
and
frankly, in the beauty of this text without
accusing myself
pitying
myself for too much and for too late?
Where
I return
to
the
manuscript.
Now
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H.
at bottom,
C,
when
her,
you
I have
name
her,
always
I rise,
I was
that
doubted
I trust
as
you,
for
LITERARY
HISTORY
you
call
have
my
she. When
me
I still
doubts.
You,
without
-You
on
your
knowing,
know.
side,
you
and
it's
know
to me
her
that
with
you
since
perhaps,
forever
say:
I give you my assent. What do I know? You, surely you know it.
of me, precisely,"
I've just lifted
This "So it is no longer a question
to name nor
from you. It was a knot in a fringe from page 35. Neither
to sign nor not to sign. I already wrote that thirty
not to name neither
years ago, forty years perhaps, at the setting of the Sun. From Portrait of
the Sun.1
And
do
we
now
awaken,
after
the
where
night,
do we
the
keep
you
day,
watch
would
on
say, where
awakening
TRANSLATED
are
this
we,
new
BY PEGGY
where
us?
KAMUF
NOTES
Voiles (Paris: Galil?e,
1
H?l?ne
Cixous
and Jacques
25; Veils, trans.
Derrida,
1998),
refer
Stanford University
Press, 2001),
20; [henceforth,
(Stanford:
Bennington
Geoffrey
citations
and the translation;
in both
the original
ences will be given
in the text to pages
as
as
to reflect
H.
be modified
from
the translation
will occasionally
closely
possible
of
Derrida's
Cixous's
text.?Trans.]
reading
to give herself,
that Penelope
that's the injunction
Don't
lose the thread,
2
pretended
. . . "Not even a
as she did one day,
of
but also the feint or the fiction
question
pretending,
thus
a shroud by saving the lost threads
to be weaving
[lesfils perdus: also the lost sons],
the
a winding
for
of
Ithaca
and
father
of
sheet
for
Laertes,
very
Odysseus,
King
preparing
one that Athena
(Voiles 25; Veils 22).
rejuvenated
by a miracle"
. . . (Paris: Galil?e,
9.
3
2002),
Jacques Derrida, H.C. pour la vie, c'est ? dire
4
?tats d'?me de la psychanalyse
Derrida,
2000);
(Paris: Galil?e,
"Psychoanalysis
Jacques
in Without Alibi, ed. and trans. Peggy Kamuf
Searches
the States of Its Soul,"
(Stanford:
Stanford
followed
256.
Press, 2002),
[Hereafter,
page
University
by those of the translation.?Trans.]
names. Names
of Cities.
Names
of Countries,
numbers
of
the original
will
be
Good Airs
5
The
[Buenos Aires], Saint
to which
and worried
he lent an incredulous
Saint Paul, bearers of signs, omens
Jacques,
secret
thus more
ear.
these places more
personal,
They exalt fears and desires by making
and more
powerful.
a thesis. Verdict, in French.
Is there
another
6
"Verdict" in Jacques Derrida:
subject for
even one text that is not haunted
by it?
here Spirale, 195, "Fid?lit? ? plus d'un," March-April
2004. How
Reread
past it is,
with
it is this beautiful
how changed
issue, concerned
journal
terribly past, terribly present,
to Ginette
who
is a
here
I want to pay homage
the apodas
of J. D.'s thought.
Michaud,
the
liminal explorations
extend
in the limbo of limbos, and whose
detective
magnificent
like the Inuits, let us
and weak peoples
the Thules, mighty
of criticism beyond
continents
7
say.
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