ESPN12, Macherey

I defiantly found this section of the book to be confusing. However once I was able to step back and really look at it I guess I was able to understand a little better. Throughout the beginning I found Macherey to be talking about how all literary work is open to being critiqued and how because of that no work is really complete. It made me think about how a simple story, which is not even made to be complex or made to be anything else then it really is can be looked at and then critiqued to be something else. This shows that people can think many ways about certain texts and many different feelings can arise. That leads me in the next section of the book that talks about silence. It says both that “in order to say anything, there are other things which must not be said”, and also “Speech eventually has nothing more to tell us. We investigate silence, for it is silence that is doing the speaking.” Thus when one looks a simple story, they come up with new ideas and feelings that are not said and leads them to think that there is more to it then there really is. Certainly, it could be the same for complex and long writings as well, but it is the Silence can give us many new feelings and thought. This shows us that silence is indeed is more important than is what is being said as it opens a whole new thought process and new ideas of what is being said. Silence is really something I have never thought about in writing but it really gives one a whole perspective on not only writings but also in everyday language and movies. It must also be known that even though silence seems to be more important then what is written, what is written is also important as it give one the amiability to choose how much silence there is.