Jaques Derrida & Logos the Cat

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Jaques Derrida | Plato's Pharmacy

"Logos, a living, animate creature, is thus also an organism that has been engendered. An organism: a different body proper, with a center and extremities, joints, a head, and feet. In order to be "proper", a written discourse ought to submit to the laws of life just as a living discourse does. Logographical necessity [...] ought to be analogous to the biological, or rather zoological, necessity [...] Otherwise obviously it would have neither head nor tail."

Cat Tangram

. . . a Chinese dissection puzzle consisting of seven pieces, 

called tans, which fit together to form a shape of some sort. 

The objective is to form a specific shape with seven pieces. 

The shape has to contain all the pieces, which may not overlap.

Γιώργος Σεφέρης | Επιτύμβιο στη Γάτα μου την Τούτη

Είχε το χρώμα του έβενου τα μάτια της Σαλώμης
η Τούτη η γάτα που έχασα· διαβάτη, μη σταθείς.
Βγήκε απ’ το χάσμα που έκοβε στης μέρας το σεντόνι
τώρα να σκίσει δεν μπορεί του ζόφου το πανί.

Le rendez-vous des chats | Édouard Manet

1868  

Confucius

"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."

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