A Tale Of Two Jacques

The laconic Jacques Lacan once wrote : 'A letter always arrives at its destination'. Not a man for such closures, the dithering Jacques Derrida replied back : 'It always might not'. Which makes me wonder : what if Lacan had sent Derrida an email? What would have happened to that email? Would it hang forever in a limbo like Schrodinger's kitty? No wonder that the two Jacques never quite managed to communicate with each other. Meanwhile, just step outside the Academy, and anyone on the street will comment on this lacuna as follows : 'That is old hat. Nero always plays the fiddle whenever he sees Rome burning'.