Romney on the brink

People seem to be counting out Mitt Romney if he doesn't win in Michigan today.

I don't care too much who wins the Republican nomination, but surely he'll go on through Super Tuesday, no matter what? That's when everything will be decided, or nearly so.

From Of Grammatology

Pleasure itself, without symbol or suppletory, that which would accord us (to) pure presence itself, if such a thing were possible, would be only another name for death. Rosseau says it:

Enjoyment! Is such a thing made for man? Ah! If I had ever in my life tasted the delights of love even once in their plenitude, I do not imagine that my frail existence would have been sufficient for them, I would have been dead in the act (Confessions, Book VII)

—Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (what a name!)