Things to do with texts after Derrida

I couldn’t resist.

• Deflesh them with bone knives.
• Let the wolves and ravens deflesh them.
• Gather them into skin bags and bury them under the hearth.
• Feed them beer.
• Dig them up every fall and dance with them.
• Dig ditches around them so the uninitiated cannot get too close.
• Build mounds over them so the otherworld can ascend and be closer to us.
• Organize them by size and type.
• Rearrange them into new, mash-up texts.
• Break them so they will not follow us in our dreams.
• Suck out the marrow so their spirits will protect us in our dreams.
• Burn them and place them in jars of clay decorated with rows of pits, as from missing teeth.
• Erect stones around them in a circle so they will remember us who stand in the light.