On a fateful evening in 1960s Paris, Jacques Derrida, the famous French philosopher, found himself lost in the winding streets of the Latin Quarter. As he turned a corner, he stumbled upon a small butcher shop, and his eyes landed on a majestic sausage, sizzling in the window.
Derrida, being the deconstructionist that he was, saw in the sausage a perfect metaphor for the fragmented nature of reality. He rushed inside, where the butcher, a gruff but kind soul, offered him a slice of the very same sausage.
As Derrida took his first bite, he was struck by the realization that the sausage was, in fact, a deconstructive device, subverting the very notions of identity and signification that he had spent his career deconstructing.
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