from Startles (an ongoing sequence)
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The curb says, do not park here. It says, storm drain below, says palm tree
above, says graveyard, says take my picture. And I do: narro...
1 week ago
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Whose heart is deaf? He who frames the terms of the argument is only listening to the echoes of his own non-hearing, right? Is this what De Mann meant by the violence of language?
Most blindness is only partial and well-intentioned at that--but the harm it does is still incalculable.
Whoops, it's Paul de Man who talks about the violence of conceptual totalization, not another critic with the similar name "Mann."
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