I am Jacques' Smirking Revenge: Corpsey's Guide to Derrida

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He seems much more indulgent and recursive than the others I've come across, looping round and round, languidly picking apart things like the concept of a book.

I'm reading Positions, a collection of three interviews, and he just strings together vague ideas whilst batting away any attempt at clarity on the interviewer's part:

Ronse: I asked you where to begin, and you have led me into a labyrinth.

Derrida: All these texts, which are doubtless the interminable preface to another text that one day I would like to have the force to write, or still the epigraph to another that I would never have the audacity to write, are only the commentary on the sentence about a labyrinth of ciphers that is the epigraph to Speech and Phenomena ...
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dilbert1 said:
I was assigned his essay “Plato’s Pharmacy” in college and felt really dumb trying to make heads or tails of it. Even the driest stuff we read in that class like Husserl or the Tractatus I devoured up with glee, but from him I was only able to pick up a hyper-sophisticated fetish for the written word which, again, I didn’t and don’t really understand. I should try again, tell me where to @Corpsey or anyone else
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What did the lecturer have to say about it?
 
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What did the lecturer have to say about it?
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He was a very old man in his final semester of teaching and loved Plato’s Phaedrus, so he was already getting a lot more mileage out of the essay, and was too committed to opening our minds to say anything really critical about Derrida. I might be able to find my notes, probably very confused
 
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