"'To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, ' Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, adding: 'and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing at all.' In this book of seamless discrepancies H. L. Hix says a great deal, and none of it nonsensical. The conjunctions of SAY IT INTO MY MOUTH offer a poetics of the dialogue in which exchange and equivalence are conducted as philosophical propositions. From translation to philosophy,...
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