The hardest concept for my mind to digest in this essay was the concept of a Trace. An effacement? Like effacer, in French, to erase?
In my mind, trying to visualize Trace I thought of the bear tracks that we spoke about in class, of course with understanding that Trace is not an object, but a doing. So Trace is that time when I see the tracks and I think of the bear. Although the bear is not present, I make him present and therefore the tracks are not really there anymore, but have been erased by the presence of the bear (in my mind). I have brought the bear to the present by erasing what is in reality the presence in the present (the tracks), and have brought the future to the present.... I think...
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