Monday, June 09, 2008

the-world-as-it-really-is(n't)



124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women knew it and so did the children.


Toni Morrison

Derrida insists that the problem of reference admits of no solution. Language is not the 'house of Being' with the potential for leaping the gap between culture and 'nature.' Language will never become a transparent window to the-world-as-it-really-is.


The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

No comments: