Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 12:23:40 -0400
Subject: Re: MB: universal library


As noted in the previous reply, it is hard to say without a context.  If
 "imperiled"
can be read as "censorship" or political repression of texts, and writing can
be considered to be a way of being attentive to l'autre, then a text in peril
represents a limitation upon the paths by which the universal library
(universal consciousness?  you & I?) may come to "know" l'autre.  To use
non-Blanchot jargon, a text in such a situation would could be considered to
be held in a state of speculative reserve by political forces, a
manifestation of technos.  Q: is it not concievable that a text or thought in
this situation (an affliction-where one's will is not one's own, where the
text/thought forgets its own will) might be in a better postition to
"apprehend" l'autre?