Derrida’s Bluff By Christopher Orlet Published 10/15/2004 12:04:18 AM The most charming and practical thing about the obituary is that the writer has at most a thousand words to sum up the life of the deceased. He must be concise. This fact provided especial relief when the French philosopher Jacques Derrida died this week. Most of us, I'll wager, have heard of Derrida, some of us even had heard of his brainchild deconstruction theory, but few of us could have said what all the fuss was about. Even in death Doc Derrida continued to baffle and confuse, in particular the...