A certain man teaches a child to write the alphabet. He gives him a piece of paper and a pencil and patiently teaches the boy each letter one by one, capital and lower case.
Then one day, the boy has learned not only to write the whole alphabet, but also words and sentences. He remarks to the teacher how stifling it is to be restricted to the piece of paper. Why can't he write anywhere else? The desk? The dictionary which sits on the desk?
After thought, the man takes the pencil and piece of paper away from the boy and says, Now you are no longer restricted to writing only on the piece of paper.
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A great story. Where did you pick it up, or did you create it yourself?
My wife and I were discussing deconstructionism. She mentioned a quote where Derrida says something about feeling liberated by deconstructionism. This is the way I illustrated the kind of liberation deconstructionism gives us. Can't think of anywhere I picked it up . . . must have come up with it on my own . . .
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