Word: cinders
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...Sequoia Lodge is a nontoxic Rocky Mountain high -- restful, woodsy, organic. Predock's Hotel Santa Fe, once you get past its drive-in-theater billboard of Clint Eastwood, looks as bleak as a Southwestern insane asylum. For anyone who wants to get suicidally depressed at Euro Disney, this cinder-block shantytown is the place to bunk...
...Tuesday, 265 miners lost that gamble when a methane explosion bellowed from deep within the Incirharmani mine outside the city of Kozlu, instantly transforming miles of galleries into a subterranean conflagration of toxic gas. Rescuers pulled out 118 bodies before the inferno forced them to seal the passages with cinder blocks, entombing the remaining victims in the still burning mine...
Page 75 is a total melt down. On that page, one of the voices of the polylogue (a technique Derrida has used before, most successfully in "Restitutions" in The Truth in Painting--he's always doing things like that) says that the initial consonant in the word cinder doesn't matter much to Derrida "every word seems to finish with () inder." But the French version says that every words seems to finish with "()endre" (the ending of cendre) "ou ()andre." In "andre," we have allusions to both "androor" "human" and "Anderer," the German "other...
Finding both identity and difference (the human and its other) at once is what Derrida has traditionally called "the trace," but here calls "the cinder." The entire allusion is lost...
...same way, Cinders is about Clean as much as is it about Heidegger. His name echoes throughout it, such as the sentence "C'est la, la cendre." ("There is the cinder," but also "Clean the cinder...