Backstory: That phrase in this journal.
““The serpent’s eyes shine
As he wraps around the vine….”
– Don Henley
With Derrida, as usual, playing the role of
the serpent, see a philosophical meditation from
October 9, 2014, by a perceptive and thoughtful Eve
that includes the following passage:
“But, before this and first of all, there is
the resistance posed by the work itself,
the hard kernel formed when the intelligibility
of a universal ‘message’ is joined to the
unintelligible secret of a singularity.”
See as well the word “kernel” here.