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derrida story
Dec. 10th, 2002 08:51 pm"When I brought out my notebook, Derrida got upset. He felt turning our discussion into an interview would ruin it.
After he was offered banana bread, however, and tried it for the first time, he loved it so much that he pointed to me and said, 'You can write that. I love banana bread.' So I did, not because it's interesting but because he was motioning somewhat threateningly for a 72-year-old Frenchman. Then he told me I could ask him 'facts.' I reminded him that his writing argues that facts don't exist, which didn't go over well. Deconstructionist jokes, it turns out, have a really high bar."
- Joel Stein
After he was offered banana bread, however, and tried it for the first time, he loved it so much that he pointed to me and said, 'You can write that. I love banana bread.' So I did, not because it's interesting but because he was motioning somewhat threateningly for a 72-year-old Frenchman. Then he told me I could ask him 'facts.' I reminded him that his writing argues that facts don't exist, which didn't go over well. Deconstructionist jokes, it turns out, have a really high bar."
- Joel Stein
