Re: race...

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> In a message dated 2/1/99 9:04:44 AM, df803@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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> << You have a right to be angry, maybe not
> one of those you are born with in your bundle of human rights that we
> are all supposed to bow down before....  >>
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> hey, give the rest of us a break!  there's only so much mailbox space...how
> about back to heidegger.  if you want to play, check out http//dueling.com

  Yes, to the backwoods! So here I am again, midway through life, I am 34
years old perhaps a little bored with real life. (Thanks for the link, I
will check it out.) and I find myself in the dark woods, an errant
displaced shamanic knight with my road wholly gone. I see the ashes of
Buddha, of Christ, of Allah, of Moses, of Orpheus, etc., on the road
all around me. The flames are intense and the snow man is lying down
for now, in a clear pool of water, very smooth and still like the one
Socrates looked into and also Narcissus about which Tom was asking.
Sorry if I am talking too much but I am like an old woman sometimes,
cackling like an egg, blah, blah, blah.... gift of the mother tongue.
So, the song of songs is attributed to Solomon, son of David with
Indian religious influence. It is a celebration of nature's renewal, a
baroque renaissance if I may say so, it describes the *listless*
quality of a woman lover according to Kristeva but I think of it as a
listing quality, a swooning quality perhaps of Arabian origin as we
begin to stumble upon the ruins of troubadours who displaced the
tradition of rhetoric away from the mere catalogue of figures to get
things done in the world for the purpose of political interest, ends,
causes and such. A trivial use of rhetoric that Ricoeur writes about in
his text _The Rule Of Metaphor_ that does not engage this displacement
that i am making reference to. reference: Giorgi Agamben _The Language
Of Negativity_--a very interesting set of lectures on Hegel, Heidegger
like only an Italian can do Heidegger, and even though he doesn't
mention Derrida often, the book is clearly a response to Derrida's
rigid distinction between voice and writing:

Listen to what he has to say on the eighth day of his lectures,

"The essential relationship between language and death takes place--for
meatphysics--in Voice. _Death and Voice have the same negative
structure and they are metaphysically inseparable_. To experience death
as death signifies, in fact, to experience the removal of the voice and
the appearance, _in its place_, of another Voice (presented in
grammatical though as _gramma_, in Hegel as the Voice of death, in
Heidegger as the Voice of conscience and the Voice of being, and in
linguistics as a phoneme), which constitutes the originary _negative_
foundation of the human word. To experience Voice signifies on the
other hand, to become capable of another death--no longer simply a
deceasing, but a person's ownmost and insuperable possibility, the
possibility of his _freedom_." (p.86, his emphasis)

Alla _Gita Govinda_! I am all for renouncing Bultmann's project of
demythologization.

[smile] sorry about the can'ed(u.) smile.

Krishna, Krishna, harry krishna.... so we have this mantric rhythm
which Micheal was so kind to point out, indicate as in a baroque
gesture, that it could be a way of approaching an interpretation of
Levinasian committed style, of much interest to shamanic drumming up
action practices...

To end arbitrarily and take a break, a quote from Kristeva's _Tales Of
Love_ moving towards saying something on autoreferential narcissistic
writing like those of the troubadoors of active forgetting.

"In Hebrew, "memory" and "phallus" seem bound to the same root, *dkr,
*zkr. How can one not pay attention to such interpretations when
reading the Song of Songs that "love is strong _as_ death"?" (p. 87)

Heidegger list Archival memories, the upward flow is a column of fire.

With a feather in my cap,
Ariosto Furioso

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