Jacque Derrida says we create a prison with our language. He calls this prison the "Western Metaphysic" or 'phono-logocentrism' "The problem is, he says, is that we in the West are trapped by the voice. Trapped by our alphabetic writing which follows the voice. The voice is linear, in his view: there is only one thing happening at a time, a sequence of phonemes. On a larger scale, the unidimensional march of the voice is replicated in our linear view of history, what Derrida calls 'the epic model.' The bars of the prison, then are made of speech and of oral poetry, and the way out, in Derrida's thinking is through a writing and a literature that finally realizes their full potential by severing their connections with the voice."

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