Keith Hudson wrote:
[snip]
> I like the "struggle" bit -- 'cos that's what it frequently is.
>
> I'm sure I've got the following quotation wrong, but who was it who said
> something to the effect of: "How do I know what I think until I write what
> I say"?
>
> Keith H
To quote Emmanuel Levinas again on this topic of various
dynamics of writing:
"The word by way of preface
which seeks to break through the screen
stretched between the author and the reader by
the book itself does not give itself out as a word of honor.
But it belongs to the very essence of language, which
consists in continually undoing its phrase by the foreword or
the exegesis, in unsaying the said, in attempting to
restate without ceremonies what has already been ill understood
in the inevitable ceremonial in which the said
delights."
(--Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 1961/1969, p. 30)
Language is both a "tool" (means) and also a pleasure in itself (end).
"Yours in discourse...."
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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