I have been attempting to get online with my dial up connection that doesn't work but unfortunately I've only been able to get viruses. I had planned to write something about Derrida but the mass amounts of posts about it has left little for me to say (especially since I have read so little Derrida and my interest has always verged a little towards hailing him as the most attractive of philosophers rather and about anything he has written.... my my glueboot, so crass). Having not realised that he had died, a friend and I were speaking on Friday night about the 'father of deconstruction.' Said friend planned an assassination attempt so that Jackie D couldn't bring out any more work while he wrote his PhD. I haven't seen him since, I believe he may be at home saying a penance of 15,000 Hail Marys and an Our Father.

All that flipancy aside, it is very sad but not unexpected. Sad to see that last of his generation vanish. Where for philosophy now?



Also thought that I should write something brief about what has been happening in the wastelands. I have been a very very bad student. Before I came here I decided that it would be a good idea for me to be a friendless recluse who just read philosophy all day. This has not worked out the way that I planned and I have been drunk for quite a lot of the time that I have been here. That said I have read some Kant and thought that it would be a good idea to be reading Hegel so I'm not a completely hopeless case. Anyway.... I think that it may get the point I reached during my last drinking binge as an undergraduate when alcohol ended up making me very ill. The mother was shocked when I said this but at least I would be forced into sobriety and be a sickly student of philosophy which is probably preferable to being a pisshead who's unable to tell the difference between Kant and Hegel. (Seriously though, Kant class with guy who attempted to disprove the Critique in 3 easy steps).

I may write something philosophy related soon, or I may not. I don't feel that Kant and Hegel really lend themselves to blogging although I may be able to pull out some random comment.... does anyone else find the Introduction to the 1st Critique funny? Not all of it, just occasionally when Immannuel is getting annoyed with metaphysics and dogmatists.

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