reading the readings

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I've actually managed to finish the readings before Day Of this week. I would feel excellent about this if I had also understood them.

Actually, I didn't have much trouble with "Structure, Sign and Play", but "The Law of Genre" refuses to yield.

I explained it like this to Gay Men Read Books Exclamation Mark prof:

Here's me and Derrida (or, as S. calls him, Didi -- I don't know who Gogo would be. In this case maybe me.)

Didi: The genre has a marker which marks it as part of the genre.
Me: Yes, I see.
Didi: The genre is always too large and too small for the texts that belong to it.
Me: Right with you.
Didi: Thus the marker unmarks the text.
Me: Whurf?

I notice my reaction to a text is combative. I run at it, head down, as it were, and my first reaction is: You're wrong and you make no sense.

Then: You're a genius!

Then: Your basic postulates are sound but your examples are flawed.

Consistently. It must be In Me rather than in the text.

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