The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.
Let us being again. To take some examples: why should __iterature_ still designate that which already breaks away from literature__way from what has always been conceived and signified under that name__r that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can __hat has always been conceived and signified under that name_ be considered fundamentally homogeneous, univocal, or nonconflictual?) To take other examples: what historical and strategic function should henceforth be assigned to the quotation marks, whether visible or invisible, which transform this into a __ook,_ or which still make the deconstruction of philosophy into a __hilosophical discourse_?
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Let us being again. To take some examples: why should __iterature_ still designate that which already breaks away from literature__way from what has always been conceived and signified under that name__r that which, not merely escaping literature, implacably destroys it? (Posed in these terms, the question would already be caught in the assurance of a certain fore-knowledge: can __hat has always been conceived and signified under that name_ be considered fundamentally homogeneous, univocal, or nonconflictual?) To take other examples: what historical and strategic function should henceforth be assigned to the quotation marks, whether visible or invisible, which transform this into a __ook,_ or which still make the deconstruction of philosophy into a __hilosophical discourse_?
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