/lit/ - Literature

Deleuze and Derrida are very clever in making you think they said something original when most of their implications are in the texts already. It is a very modernist thing to think postmodernism something new. Deleuze is entirely unconvincing compared to Plato.

"[The studies of Pythagorean music and astronomy] are, as we see, dreaming about being, but the clear waking vision of it is impossible for them as long as they leave the assumptions which they employ undisturbed and cannot give any account of them... When the eye of the soul is sunk in the barbaric slough of the Orphic myth, dialectic gently draws it forth and leads it up."

- Plato, Republic