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I see her decision to go out with friends, to lunch with a male work acquaintance, to knit, to sleep with her back to me as meaningful, as a statement about me.

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Language is weird. It’s a kind of system that includes all these different elements — words, punctuation, meanings — and the way the elements combine, that is, grammar.

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My writing as a 21 year old was pretentious and goofy (it still is!). But the fact is that by imitating Foucault and Derrida, I was training my writing muscles to perform in new ways.

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Structural linguists (de Saussure) — not to mention structuralists (Levi Strauss) — consider things as existing in three dimensions.

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Lacan: “You probably can’t understand anything I say.”