See Remembering Jacques Derrida.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."
Tor paperback reprint, 1994, p. 262
"Différance is, for Derrida, the key concept
in order to understand what is here at stake."
— Lacan 
Derrida, by Frida Saal
The following entries from October 2004
are related to the death of Jacques Derrida.
| Saturday, October 9, 2004 6:40 PM
Derrida Dead "Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born, French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and unfathomable philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's office announced. He was 74." — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times "There is no teacher but the enemy." — Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Saturday, October 9, 2004 2:22 AM Belief KERRY: "I'm going to be a president who believes in science." KERRY: "I'm a Catholic – raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life, helped lead me through a war, leads me today." BUSH: "Trying to decipher that." Friday, October 8, 2004 5:07 PM Behush the Bush
"There's where. First. "… we all gain an appreciation of how each of us can provide readings that others are blind to and how each of us is temporarily blind to other feasible readings. Reading the text becomes a communal act of discovery…. No one has much to say, for now, about the grass reference…." — Reading Finnegans Wake (1986) The phrase "snake in the grass" seems relevant, as does the opening of Finnegans Wake:
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