killacam32, macherey

"Silence shapes all speech."

This part of the reading really stood out to me. I think that it made allot of sense that in order to say anything, there must be things not said. This makes sense because, like we went over in class, our thoughts are arbitrary and pretty much random. When talking you cant just spit out a bunch of thoughts at once they have to come one after the other waiting in silence. I totally understand that to be spoken the thought must envelop itself from the unconscious first. What i don't get is, what is it that makes able to pull these thoughts from the back to the forefront of our mind? If silence is hidden how do we find it? that was an very intriguing part of the reading.

IN class the quote we went over about language and dividing sounds from thougth was also very interesting. I found myself trying to separate though from sound and found very impossible. I also think that it is impossible to divide sound from language for the simple fact that we learn our language that way. Fromt he time you are a kid learn to associate images to names. For example as early as i can remember I knew the names of my VHS tapes by what they looked like even though i couldn't read. Even kindergarten you learn what htings are and sounds of the alphabet by associating images with letters. Its how we've brought up.

I also found myself thinking about the quote the little girl said,"Th . is is this, This is not this." That quote made total sense to me and helped me understand the sign and signified theory even more. By distinguishing things by what they aren't we know what they are.