Deconstruction: The Central Metaphor

Before we put Act One to bed for now, let's insert the continuation of Macksey's remarks his opening address to the conference ("Lions and Squares"). We have stipulated that we need to hear Macksey's explicit mentioning of Derrida.

On page 7 we find:

MACSKEY: "...we might conclude and so begin by suggesting some image representative of the metaphoric space which will define our meetings. At such interdisciplinary gatherings we have often invoked hortatory images of walls being razed, windows being thrown open, new corridors or prospects being opened up. .."

"...I am tempted to propose a rather less ambitious or desperate model. The progressive configurations of symposia have often reminded me of the... dynamics of ... board games, games which may provoke ...uncompromising struggle, but which are still governed by an ... set of conventions ..."moves" which ... abstract the conflict. ...

....The comparison...may have been suggested to me by the intriguing title of M. Derrida's paper...but I suppose that these preliminary remarks themselves could be likened to a commonplace ...pawn move in an opening gambit...

Let's suppose we near these three segments as delineated above, the first two of which we can hear in voice over, but the on the third, where we hear Derrida's name, we must go back to the auditorium, in the midst of Macksey's address, and see the reaction of the various principals.  We see LEVI-STRAUSS who does not react at all, as if the name and the point are meaningless to him.  GEORG POULET, next to him, raises an eyebrow, and glances to his side.  J. Hillis Miller (SECOND COLLEAGUE) leans forward and looks down the aisle.

When we will hear this? We could place this between the Eiffel Tower overhead pull-out shot and the FOUCAULT voice over. Or perhaps earlier, interlacing it with Macksey talking to the NEWSPAPER REPORTER. We'll figure this out when we sort out of the fine-grained details of Act One, but for now we have the elements we need, I think.