Tales of Power and Other Thoughts
Writing is a dangerous supplement to speech. – Jacques Derrida By the central idea of Power , I understand it as a reservoir of strength or energy. Alongside this, there is another meaning of the word Power in Bengali, which also denotes a ball —a spherical object. In outer space, under intense rotation, this spherical shape emerges as the most natural form, one that carries the least distortion. From the perspective of linguistic analysis, this can be interpreted as follows: The above diagram is called a Saussurean Graphic System . Within the central idea of any word, each letter carries its own marginal idea, already imprisoned there. From the perspective of linguistics, in the case of the word Power , though the two distinct meanings share a common marginal idea—the consonant “l”—there is no logical connection between their two central ideas. That is why the title Tales of Power produces, at first encounter, a rather perplexing mental image— All...