thebrownwaltz:


The card immediately seemed to me, how to put it, obscene. […] For the moment, myself, I tell you that I see Plato getting an erection in Socrates’ back and see the insane hubris of his prick, an interminable, disproportionate erection … slowly sliding, still warm, under Socrates’ right leg […] Imagine the day, when we will be able to send sperm by post card. [… and finally, Plato] wants to emit … to sow the entire earth, to send the same fertile card to everyone.

Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond; trans. Alan Bass (1987)

thebrownwaltz:

The card immediately seemed to me, how to put it, obscene. […] For the moment, myself, I tell you that I see Plato getting an erection in Socrates’ back and see the insane hubris of his prick, an interminable, disproportionate erection … slowly sliding, still warm, under Socrates’ right leg […] Imagine the day, when we will be able to send sperm by post card. [… and finally, Plato] wants to emit … to sow the entire earth, to send the same fertile card to everyone.

Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond; trans. Alan Bass (1987)

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