ABSTRACT
It is of course a beginning that is forever fictional, and the scission, far from being an inaugural act, is dictated by the absence — unless there exists some illusion to discount — of any decisive beginning, any pure event that would not divide and repeat itself and already refer back to some other “beginning,” some other “event,” the singularity of the event being more mythical than ever in the order of discourse (Derrida 1981, 300).
