[…] hunger, fatigue, and despairing hopelessness had numbed his brain […]

I have noted that throughout La vie la mort Derrida calls attention to this programming machine, a machine that operates effectively to auto-reproduce biological, political, and pedagogical sameness and that in so doing, attempts to reify (“cadaverize”) the living body and the living body of language (for this, see especially Derrida's “Nietzsche and the Machine”).

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Tobacco is an excisable commodity.