Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0312030112410.16546@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Derrida and Age (fwd)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:12:49 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:42:45 -0800 From: Joel Weishaus <weishaus@pdx.edu> To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> Subject: Derrida and Age "I've always believed everyone has more than one age, and I carry three ages within myself. When I was 20 I felt old and wise, but now I feel like a child. There's an element of melancholy to this, because although I feel young in my heart, I know objectively that I'm not young. The second age I carry is my real age of 72, and every day I'm confronted with signs that remind me of it. The third age I carry -- and this is something I only feel in France -- is the age I was when I began to publish, which was 35. It's as if I stopped at 35 in the cultural world where I work. Of course that's not true, because in many circles I'm considered an old, well-known professor who's published a lot. Nonetheless, I feel as though I'm a young writer who just started publishing, and people are saying, 'Well, he's promising.'"- Jacques Derrida.