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Whether you mean to prove that you can do it, or we are driven by what Maurice Blanchot calls "the trial of experience," and he submits himself endlessly to Nietzsche's loyalty tests, or she is a runaway replicant whose human factor is being scrutinized, or the sadistic coach has us revving up for an athletic contest; whether you are entering college, studying law, or trying to get out of an institution; whether they are giving you the third degree; whether you are buffing up on steroids, or she had unprotected sex, or he doesn't know what he has but he's fatigued and nauseated; whether they have to prove their mettle or demonstrate a hypothesis or audition for the part, make a demo, try another way, or determine paternity; whether you roll back to the time of the Greeks who first list their understanding of basanos, or to the persecution of witches and press forward to push out the truth in the medium of torture and pain: it seems as though everything - nature, body, investment, belief - has needed to be tested, including your love.
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- Title The Test Drive
- Author Avital Ronell
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Printing
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A
- Date May 16, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780252029509 / 025202950X
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Methodology, Testing
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004007218
- Dewey Decimal Code 101
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