last night, teaching Derrida on Animals w/ Kafka 'Ein Bericht für eine Akademie."

Big question w/ the Kafka: the crisp Hallo Red Peter calls out as his first human sound [my trans says "human speech," but Kafka writes "Menschenlaut," so...]

What kind of word is 'Hello'? Since they're MA students, many older people, I asked if anyone had a child whose first word was 'hello.'

Of course not.

Is the Hello sound rational? Is it a first-person sound? What does it want?
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