Hi Michel! Great to meet you again, after
so many years!
How are you? What’s going on?
Hey Dude, Gilles!
What are you doing here?
How’s it hanging?
Good. – Hey, I saw your latest video.
You seemed somewhat frustrated with the people
publishing your unfinished books after your
death…
Well, you know…
I just wanted to drop by and cheer you up
a little!
Did you know that I published a book about
you, after you died?
It’s not a huge tome, but still… and it
was full of praise!
Yes, I know, and I was honored and flattered.
So, thank you.
I actually read your book, and I liked it.
But to be honest, it is more a book about
yourself and not about my work.
I mean, you took my ideas and turned into
something very Deleuzian, huh?
Yes, perhaps. It’s my old habit of getting
behind famous authors and making them say
things unexpected.
But as a puppet, I am sure you don’t mind.
Plus, when I talk about folding and the fold,
it is really your writing that was my inspiration…
I was very much caught when you said the problem
of the “double” is my key topic.
That sounded absolutely true to me.
Let me quote what I mean.
It starts on page 97:
“The theme which has always haunted Foucault
is that of the double.
But the double is never a projection of the
interior;
on the contrary, it is an interiorization
of the outside. (…)
It resembles the invagination of a tissue
in embryology, or the act of doubling in sewing:
twist, fold, stop, and so on.”
Oh yeah, this was inspired by what you had
written about Raymond Roussel.
But I also was thinking of machines for repeating
differences. Over all, I guess the idea of
interiorization is very dear and important
to both of us.
So, how about you coming over to my place
and having a glass of wine?
Oh, yeah. It would be absolutely my pleasure.
–
Ooops; I probably shouldn’t use this word.
Do you recall? There was a time, we were fighting
about the concepts of pleasure and desire…
Never mind. We’ll just interiorize some
wine and have a wonderful time…
Santé
