 The Jacques Derrida memorial post
>> Pasqualini obviously knows a vast amount about tea, even if some of it
>> isn't true. But informing the reader in any linear way is very low on
>> his agenda. It's the (usually hidden) *meanings* of things he's
>> principally after, representations within representations, and the
>> pursuit gets pretty dizzying, maddening, even. But there are gems in
>> the text, too, like his hymn to gongfu preparation around p. 160
>> (sorry, I don't have the book handy.)
>>
>> Anyway, it was rather amazing the other day to hit what may be the
>> climax of the whole book (a page where he quotes both Derrida and
>> Proust) on the same day I read Derrida's obituary.
>>
Is that the one on page 153-154, where he writes about Water? My favourite
is near the end of the book,where he quotes Barthes, Roubaud and Laozi
almost in a breath...
Samar | 
