Clark Allison's comment reminds me of something Michael Wood once
said: that an unreadable tale (he was thinking of Kafka) doesn't in
fact allow readerly suspension, but is constituted exactly when the
reader accepts that a reading has already been made, which clings to
them no less than the horizon of the unreadable; cf what I take to
be the position of the later Derrida: that the undecidable is the
space of insufficiency only knowable through the medium of
unevaded ethical decisions which are in fact taken there.
Not sure how the above calibrates on the performance scale:
everything can indeed be read off as a performance, which then opens
up the way to the insufficiency of the activated frame, and calls for
a supplement of dedication, neither text nor performance but a pre-
echo, perhaps, of what will have to be read and decided on.
Peter
Peter Larkin
Philosophy & Literature Librarian
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
Tel: 01203 528151 Fax: 01203 524211
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