It is still better to speak only in riddles, allusions, hints, parables. Even if asked to clarify a few points. Even if people…
It is still better to speak only in riddles, allusions, hints, parables. Even if asked to clarify a few points. Even if people plead that they just don’t understand. After all, they never have understood. So why not double the misprision to the limits of exasperation? Until the ear tunes into another music, the voice starts to sing again, the very gaze stops squinting over the signs of auto-representation, and reproduction no longer inevitably amounts to the same and returns to the same forms, with minor variations.
Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman (1985), p, 143