http://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/24.1/this-suturing-of-wounds-or-words/
Tag: i thou
In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.
Edmond Jabès, El, Or the Last Book
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Language presupposes community. Therefore without you, nothing I say has any meaning.
Kathy Acker (via kitduckworth)
(…)We must give up trying to know those to whom we are linked by something essential; by this I mean, we must greet them in the relation with the unknown in which they greet us, as well, in our distance. Friendship, this relation without dependence, without episode yet into which all of the simplicity of life enters, passes by way of the recognition of the common strangeness that does not allow us to speak of our friends, but only to speak to them, not to make of them a topic of conversations (or articles), but the movement of understanding in which, speaking to us, they reserve, even on the most familiar terms, an infinite distance, the fundamental separation on the basis of which what separates becomes relation. Here discretion is not in the simple refusal to put forward confidences (how vulgar that would be, even to think of it), but it is the interval, the pure interval that, from me to this other who is a friend, measures all that is between us, the interruption of being that never authorizes me to use him, or my knowledge of him (where it to praise him) and which, far from preventing all communication, relates us to one another in the difference and sometimes the silence of speech.(…)
Jacques Derrida, “Politics of Friendship”, p. 386-387
S. Weil is right; it’s not the human being that must be protected, but the possibilities within him. Moreover, she says, “one doesn’t enter truth without having passed through one’s own annihilation, without having lived at length in a state of total and extreme humiliation.”
To ask a question, you must first tell the Other that I am speaking to you. Even to oppose or challenge the Other, you must say “at least I speak to you,“ “I say yes to our being in common together.” So this is what I meant by love, this reaffirmation of the affirmation.
Jacques Derrida, interviewed by Nikhil Padgaonkar
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