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Paul de Man
Belgian
Critic
Born:
Dec 6
,
1919
Died:
Dec 21
,
1983
Actually
Degree
Does
Facts
Language
Own
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Paul de Man
Death
Name
Linguistic
Predicament
Displaced
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Paul de Man
Nature
Writing
Own
Considered
Follows
Both
Denies
Ambivalence
After
Cannot
Process
Which
Act
Interpretive
Coincide
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Paul de Man
Alone
Fashion
Fire
Took
Shaped
Like
Trace
Revealing
Left
Flames
Behind
Place
Ashes
Uniquely
Actually
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Paul de Man
More
Tenacious
Facts
Metaphors
Than
Much
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man
Hope
Whatever
Marks
Out
Point
Could
Wipe
True
New
Reaching
Least
Came
Exists
Departure
Form
Modernity
Origin
Present
Earlier
Desire
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