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Derrida’s teleology…

…means
the sum total

of civilisation

is the permanently

failed
convergence

of two
hopelessly

parallel lines.

So time is after
All real, and life's mystery
Is a duration.

Can that mean a thousand clocks
Have sung the millennium?

Thanks for that, Zlatko. Anyone who can reveal Derrida I greatly appreciate, as he is so monstrously difficult to read. I'll be chasing down those web links.

Peter

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