Rift between Symbolic and Real as equivalent to breaking the dichotomy between the 4-beat standard and the polyrhythmic. The original pun referenced the concrete floor of Sausserian "straight" Reality a la Tin Pan Alley underneath the fooling around on the Symbolic carpet a la Zorn.


Believe it or not, I can get esoteric! (Feel free to ridicule me "recently" seeing Derrida speak. This goes back 2 years, in the local French Institute, quite a walk up.)