Electric Warrior

           

            On Monday I read through my notes on Jacques Derrida’s “Proximity” and Emmanuel Levinas’s “Face” in hopes of understanding these concepts a little better in order to be able to write about them in the exam next week.

“Inquiry must be guided by what is sought. So the meaning of Being must already be available to us in some way.”

“Asking about Being is an entity's mode of Being; and as such it gets its essential character from what is inquired about.”

“Man's Being, is 'defined' as that living thing whose Being is essentially determined by the potentiality for discourse.”

“The thinking of Being remains as thinking of man.”

“Before he speaks, man must first let himself be claimed again by Being, taking the risk that under this claim he will seldom have much to say.”

“Humanism is thinking and caring that man be human and not inhumane.”

“Man essentially occurs only in his essence where he is claimed by Being. Only from that claim has he found where his essence dwells. Only from this dwelling has he language.”

“Thinking does not overcome metaphysics by climbing still higher and transcending it somehow or other; thinking overcomes metaphysics by climbing back down into the nearness of nearest.”

“I can want to kill the other. Yet this power is the opposite of power. The triumph of this power is its defeat as power. At the very moment when my power to kill is realized, the other has escaped.”

I’ve been moving by a few songs every day through the Marc Bolan discography. He seemed to reach his peak with the T-Rex albums “Electric warrior” and “The Slider”. With “Tanx” he seemed to have already started to plagiarize himself but I kind of like “Easy Action”. I’m only halfway through “Zinc Alloy” but it’s an improvement over “Tanx”. It seems to me to be influenced by Bowie, but the Bowie that Bowie had already moved on from being.

            I watched an episode of I Love Lucy in which Ricky refers to Lucy as Lucille Esmeralda McGillicuddy. Esmeralda doesn’t sound very Scottish.