Pas (step/not)
[The pas ] is accomplished in its very impossibility, it enfranchises itself with respect to itself . - Jacques Derrida, Aporias There is a certain but truistic problematic to saying, "I want to run away," for implicit in its very formulation is the assumption of a ground which begs for prepositions. "From where?" "To where?" If the ground is taken as solid enough, then the question itself is lent solidity, the solidity of a destination and of an origin. But a ground is nothing but the function of a distance. And like all things in matter which matter, distance, also like time, can be sliced. Even obliterated. One way to do so seems to be by closing this distance by proximity or unity; and the other way seems to be by opening this distance so wide that it no longer matters. But one can slice distance so thinly that it makes the grounds for closing or opening themselves impossible. This is Derrida's elegant