Livia

Livia’s plagiarism – her crypto-quotations. What was hers and what was stolen?


She was in one of her Adornian moods. Threatening to beat us to death with his collected works.


We were Livia’s entertainment, at the very end, that’s all. Before she decided to go underground. Fun for Livia’s last day in the academic sun.


Didn’t Livia think of herself as a Heideggerian? As a Jewish Heidegger?


Livia wanted to found a philosophical school. That was to be her legacy. A mock school. A false school. An idiot’s school, at the other end of European history than the ancient Greeks.


God liked our stupidity, Livia said. And so did she.