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Derrida on Derrida:
“You also asked me, in a personal way, why people are angry at me. To a large extent, I don’t know. It’s up to them to answer. To a small extent I know; it is not usually because people are angry at me personally (well, it happens in private, perhaps); but rather they are angry at what I write. They are angry at my texts more than anything else, and I think it is because of the way I write — not the content, or the thesis. They say that I do not obey the usual rules of rhetoric, grammar, demonstration, and argumentation; but, of course, if they were simply not interested, they would not be angry. As it is, they start to get involved but feel that it’s not that easy, that to read my texts they have to change the rules, to read differently, if only at another rhythm.” (”Following Theory”, p. 17, in life.after.theory, eds. Michael Payne and John Schad)
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Rick 10.31.05 at 5:13 am
Getting to the bottom of things might spoil one clock, but it`ll definitely give ME great and lasting satisfaction. How come I haven`t found out about it myself?