We thus see a certain relation shaping up between writing or its substitute (but what is a substitute for writing if not a writing?) and the process of the gift. The latter is perhaps not determined only as the content or the theme of a piece of writing -- accounting, archive, memoirs, narrative, or poem -- but already, in itself, as the marking of a trace. The gift would always be the gift of a writing, a memory, a poem, or a narrative, in any case, the legacy of a text . . . . Jacques Derrida Given Time

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