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A Huge Thing

Author(s) -

Sarah Wood

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

oxford literary review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 1757-1634

pISSN - 0305-1498

DOI - 10.3366/olr.2013.0058

Subject(s) - the thing , happening , trace (psycholinguistics) , history , carry (investment) , aesthetics , art , literature , philosophy , art history , computer science , telecommunications , performance art , business , linguistics , finance

The fiction of the world is a huge thing because it is in Derrida's words ‘the only thing that can make it possible that I can live and have or let you live, enjoy or have or let you enjoy, to carry you for a few minutes without anything happening,’ in a movement of farewell without beginning, without mourning, with the irresistible force of a whirlpool, or a maelstrom: what Poe calls ‘the immense sweeps and swelters of the whirl.’ The maelstrom sweeps, it is an immense sweep, a sweeping away, it is ‘going going away, leaving no trace.’ Throw away your watch; let go the iron ring

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