>He spent all his time in the sex
>class daydreaming about the stock market!
>
>Danny didn't care; he spent all his time in the stock
>market daydreaming about sex.
A cool -- well, almost cool -- chiasmus that sums up life under late capitalism. Devotees to Derrida may want to call it "double invagination," to give a properly pornographic ring to it:
***** Each story is part of the other, makes the other a part (of itself), each "story" is at once larger and smaller than itself, includes itself without including (or comprehending itself), identifies itself with itself even as it remains utterly different from its homonym. Of course, at intervals ranging from two to forty paragraphs, this structure of crisscross double invagination...never ceases to over-employ itself in the meantime, and the description of this would be interminable. I must content myself for the moment with underscoring the supplementary aspect of this structure: the chiasma of this double invagination is always possible, because of what I have called elsewhere the iterability of the mark. ("The Law of Genre") *****
Yoshie