Proposal and Habitation

To is place pose before another, pose before it happens. And in all its meanings to propose entails an act of will, a posing so as to put forward for consideration, discussion, solution, imitation; put forward for acceptance; put forward as a scheme or plan be adopted (OED). But what may begin as an individual act of will (a posing) is immediately shaped and compromised by what it is posed before. Thus, when a person is proposed for acceptance some office or position, or when a formal toast is proposed the assembled company, or when one proposes give oneself and take another in marriage in each of these instances the proposal is a fragment of discourse cast into an intermediate space, where response is suddenly uncertain. Here proposing is a risk because the proposal might be rejected and not real because what is proposed has not yet happened. Proposing does not have the aura of authority we associate with the act of positing in geometry and philosophy. For proposal is not a logical move, it is a socio-political gesture. It is always already part of an incomplete transaction. This paper proposes interpret interpretation in the light of

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