By Jacques Derrida
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The examining or writing supplement': has to be conscientiously prescribed, yet by way of ~he must haves of a glme, via the common sense ofpt:y, indicators to which the method of all textual powers has to be accorded and attuned. I To a substantial measure, we've already stated all we intended to claim. Our lexicon at any cost isn't faraway from being exhausted. except for this or that complement, our questions can have not anything extra to call however the teXture of the textual content, analyzing and writing, mastery and play, the paradoxes of supplementarity, and the photograph kin among the residing and the useless: in the textual, the cloth, and the histological. we are going to preserve in the limits of this tissue: among the metaphor of the histos 2 and the query of the histos of metaphor. on account that we've got already acknowledged every little thing, the reader needs to endure with us if we proceed on awhile. If we expand ourselves by means of strength of play. If we then write a piece: on Plato, who already stated within the Phaedrus that writing can merely repeat (itself), that it "always indicates (semainei) a similar" and that it's a "game" (paidia). 1. Pharmacia l I 1' allow us to start back. consequently the dissimulation of the woven texture can at least take centuries to undo its net. the instance we will suggest of it will no longer, in view that we're facing Plato, be theStatemzan, for you to have are evoked first, doubtless as a result of paradigm of the weaver, and particularly as a result paradigm of the paradigm, the instance of the example--writing-which instantly precedes it. l we'll come again to that merely after a protracted detour. 2. ''HiJIOJ: whatever Jetllpright, therefore: I. maJI. II. bMm of a loom, which stood upright, rather than mendacity horizontal as in our looms (except within the weaving tools utilized by the Gobelins and in India) to which the threads of the warp are connected, accordingly: I. loom; 2. the u"'rp fastened to the loom, therefore, the uwf; three. U! fM71 doth, piece of canvaJ; four. via anal. Jpitkr net; or hone·ycomb of bm. unwell. rod, wand, Jtick. IV. through anal. Jhinbone, leg. " . ~. "Strangtr: it truly is tricky, my pricey Socrates, to illustrate whatever of genuine significance with no using examples. each one folks is sort of a guy who sees issues in a dream and 66 PLATO 'S PHARM ACY four s we'll take off the following from the Phaedrus. we're talking of the Phaedru up that used to be obliged to attend virtually twenty-five centuries prior to someone gave that d think first at was once It e. dialogu ed the concept it used to be a badly compos item. Plato used to be too younger to do the object correct, to build a well-made ng accordi /egetai) Diogenes Laertius files this "they say" (logos [sc. e~ti], sure to which the Phaedrus used to be Plato's first attemp t and hence manifested a should be legend this thinks r rmache Schleie ti). ) juvenile caliber (meirakiodis no longer could author getting older an nt: corroborated via a daft argume no longer is nt argume have condemned writing as Plato does within the Phaedrus. This itself purely suspect in itself: it lends credits to the Laertian legend via basing he is aware not anything.