Flying Manuscript

On Tuesday, 07 February 2006, Marion Grau and I attended a lecture given by Helene Cixous. Hers was a talk about self and identity and language. For the first hour, I paid attention to a mixture of English, French and German, picking up smatterings of French and trying to grasp her explanations of the German. She is revolutionary in her discussions of ecriture feminine. Yet, it was always about Derrida - what he did, what he said, what she saw and understood. The influence of this one man on such a thinker... how can we ever escape into or own writing when even Cixous leans so heavily upon Derrida? Her current writings are on Derrida. Even in death he follows her around.