"The title for this discussion shall be the question of style, but my subject shall be woman. "It is always a question of a pointed object. Sometimes only a pen, but just as well a stylet, or even a dagger. With their help, to be sure, we can resolutely attack all that philosophy calls forth under the name of matter or matrix, so as to stave a mark in it, leave an impression or form; but these implements also help us to repel a threatening force, to keep it at bay, to repress and guard against it all the while bending back or doubling up, in flight, keeping us hidden or veiled... "Style will jut out then, like a spur, like the spur of an old sailing vessel: like the rostrum, the prong that goes out in front to break the attack and cleave open the opposing surface. Or again, always in the nautical sense, like the point of a rock that is also called a spur and that 'breaks up waves at the entrance to a harbour.'" Derrida, "The Question of Style," translated by Ruben Berezdivin, in David B. Allison, ed., The New Nietzsche, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The MIT Press, 1985.