Re(2): Quote (Umberto Eco)

Katherine Goff (Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu)
Sun, 30 Aug 1998 07:28:39 -0600

xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu,Internet writes:
>>"The Torah allows a word to come out of its coffer; the word appears for
>>a moment, then hides immediately. It is revealed only for a moment and
>only
>>to its lover. It's a beautiful woman who hides in a remote chamber of her
>>palace. she waits for one whose existence nobody knows of. If another
>tries to
>>take her, to put his dirty hands on her, she dismisses him. She knows her
>>beloved; she opens the door just a little, shows herself, and immediately
>hides
>>again. The word of the torah reveals itself only to him who loves it. "
>>
>Foucalt was an odious man who believed in terrorism and the killing of the
>enemies of the people. He favored retribution, a bloody, dictatorship,
>and
>the

i don't know who gkcunn is, but i wonder at the force of emotion his
(her?) words project. and why they are directed at foucault (maybe the
concept FOUCAULT was the target), who was as confused, conflicted and
human as the rest of us.

i reacted to the image of the female seductress, yet another
objectification of WOMAN, but that's my sensitivity. i can also see the
image as a metaphor for the impossibility of an epistemology constructed
with language. i also like the idea that one cannot force oneself into
the unknown (rape never satisfies desire.)

kathie

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