Derrida was good enough to point out that the relationship between text and
not-text is not, as it would be in a venn diagram, a relationship of outside
to inside. The border between outside and inside is an inscribed border, a
mark, a text. "Il n'y a pas de hors-texte" means "there is no
outside-the-text", not "there is (some) nothing, outside the text".
I always read it as "there is no horse text". It can't *all* be horses.
Dom
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From: "Printmaker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: A beautiful mind
>
> Derrida was fogetting that the universe contains the other
> half of the ven diagram, ie the entire class of 'not-text';
> and we access the world through it too.
>
> j
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