Various texts in this section of spirit_trouts have been excerpted from the following works:

The post card : from Socrates to Freud and beyond
Jacques Derrida; translated, with an introduction and additional notes, by Alan Bass. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press) c1987.

The Sophisticated Traveller, The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, November 12, 1995.

White Noise
Don DeLillo, (New York, NY : Viking) 1985.