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Who, me? I will always have missed the subject of “my” actions: always evaded it, omitted it. I will always have returned to the locus of that subjectivity, to the performance of that signature, the responsibility of that proper name, the duties, the commitments that implicate it (that implicate what it names, that implicate me) from some “other” place — a “doubling” commentary on some “other” text, an unfaithful translation (translation as such)a paraphrase, a footnote, a title, an epigraph, a quote, a marginal quote, a quote in the margins of “my“ discourse, my true discourse, the discourse of truth, the logical logos. I will have felt deep, morbid nostalgia for the destination of this return, the empty, inaccessible destination of it: the non-destination of a vicious re-turn that only turns round and round, over and over again, equidistant from its center, tied to an inflexible radius, kept at bay by the radius — kept on a string: the solid, merciless string of a carousel. I will have laughed when the carousel swings, laughed to tears, swallowed my tears; I will have been grateful that I can still cry. And cry because I am grateful.
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Bencivenga, E. (2001). “I”: J.D. In: Exercises in Constructive Imagination. Topoi Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0952-2_21
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