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it was a diff erent matter. I’ve always been able to do what I
wanted in seminars. But when I corrected essays and presenta-
tions for the agrégation, I was carrying out what were, for me,
exercises in absolute depersonalization.^66Then, as the year ended, a bolt from the blue struck that was to
have profound repercussions on Derrida’s situation.