clarification and all of that

sometimes i think about what i wrote and have to review it in my head for a while and then re-state a few things.

a while back i was talking about my love for 'dark fiction' aka horror stories and i made a comment about being able to explain derrida to semi-literates.

see, now i talk about derrida to a lot of folks. he's one of my personal heroes and so i talk on and on about him (if you get me started. i'd advise you not to though - unless literary theory is a hobby or something).

it occured to me recently that if someone i know read my blog and we had chatted about derrida that it could taken as a dis.

it wasn't - because here's the context for the comment: years ago i used to chat online. i worked second shift and it was a way to keep my world from becoming limited to the people that i worked with, who of the marjority were not the ones that i would hang out with at a party sad to say, anyways.

i was having a discussion with an acquaintance of mine who was doing her masters in some ridiculously difficult area like physics or something and we got to arguing about wittgenstein vs derrida and this idiot (sorry to say but the guy had a problem with spelling - and no it wasn't ghetto spelling neither, dude had issssssuuuuuesss with the english language) kept butting in going 'who's this, who's that' and whatnot.

so, i patiently explained derrida's importance and some of the particulars of our debate (which i can't remember in detail but had to do with something like: which was more relevant: wittgenstein's statment that words are actions or derrida's commentary on western civilization's preference for oral over written word authority...*sigh* and it was like 2a.m. as well) he promptly asks my conversation partner if she has any nekkid pix she wanted to send him.

so, for the record - there it is and it shows me that we need to focus. all of us.