Indirect Directives


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"Learn to unlearn" recalls "remember to forget".

Indirect directives.

In these aporia, the game of words, which refuses either to unlearn or to forget its words, disguises the extreme difficulty, or perhaps the extreme simplicity, of the exercise.





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each lesson i learn/is/another lesson i should unlearn: human being, fourteen, from Thus Spake the Crow, 7 July 2010

Jet plane and contrail against blue sky: photo by Kintaiyo, 2005
Jet contrails crosing over Frankfurt, Germany: Miguel Andrade, 2006