Can't touch me!

"Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute
the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally
predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the
absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not
the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside
the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal
predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity,
while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the
limit of the reality of the self). This is the real exteriority of the absolute
outside: the reality of the absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally
predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the darkness: the
shining of the light univocally predicated of the limit of the darkness:
actuality univocally predicated of the other of self-identity: existence
univocally predicated of the absolutely unconditioned other of the self. The
precision of the shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity of
the light. The precision of the absolutely minimum transcendence of the dark is
the light itself/the absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence for the
first time/the absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new
creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally
identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the dark
itself equivocally, in “self-alienation,” not “self-identity, itself in
self-alienation” “released” in and by “otherness,” and “actual other,” “itself,”
not the abysmal inversion of the light, the reality of the darkness equivocally,
absolute identity equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally
predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the other-self-covering of
identity which is the identification person-self). "

Look, I'm not trying to be an anti-intellectual here. Ideas are important. But how can anyone tolerate this? Big Smarty =/= Effective Communicator. Good to know this book won an award for Bad Writing in 1998.

On the other hand, when I'm feeling the frustration in my head nearing explosion point when I'm trying to wade through my readings, I read the above quote and return to my notes feeling profoundly grateful that obfuscation exists in varying degrees, and not every talks or writes like they're frantically intellectually masturbating.

# posted by me lah @ 5:24 pm