Piled Higher and Deeper's guide to grown-up conversations, for grad students. I've come to the place where my life's ambition, after I finish this degree, is to live somewhere where we can afford to own a house. (Especially now that I'm married to someone who knows how to renovate houses!)
Bah. Back to Derrida. But I'm hanging out with Ky at the same time, and we made guacamole! And walked to the ocean today!
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Derrida once wrote, "I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
I'm convinced he means this ironically.
I mean, I do it all the time. Why wouldn't Derrida do it, when everyone's watching? It seems like an oppertunity far too great to pass up.
Ky said that a PhD in her class was telling a story about being at a Derrida conference, several years ago, when a man sat next to him that he realised was Derrida himself. And Derrida spent the entire time busting a gut over how people were still wrangling about everything he'd said, so many years later.
He has to have said that quote ironically.
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