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After-Math: Rereading as the Last Man: The Arche-Fossil and Arche-Trace Ferdinand de Saussure has an appendix with a section in “Linguistic paleontology” and Pictet in his General Course on Linguistics. “Linguistic paleontology” Maurice Olender, The Languages of Paradise: Aryans and Semites, a Match Made in Heaven trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard UP, 1992. Adolphe Pictet “The year 1859, which saw the publiation of Darwin’s Origin of Species, was also the year in which a monumental “essay on linguisitc paleontology” appeared under the title Les origins indoeuropeenes ou les Aryas primitifs (Indo-European Origins, or the Primitve Arays). Its author, Adolphe Pitctet (1799-1855), belonged to one of the leading families of Calvinist Genvea. . . . His method was that of a linguistic ethnographer in search of words capable of bringing the primitieve Aryas back to life. What did the Aryas pass on to their descendants—among whom Pictet counted himself—other than their language? Language is the only way to rescue Aryas from the obscurity of centuries. Pictet therefore embarks on a journey of “linguistic paleontology,” tracking the destiny of words. His mission: to revive Indo-European meomories in a Chrisitan Europe that is in search of an even brighter future. . . . Taking as his model new techniques in analyzing fossils, he hoped to give voice t the vestiges of the Arian vocabulary as other scientists reconstituted the life of an animal—its feeing habits and other behavior—forma few bones: “For words last as long as bones, and just as a tooth implicitly contains parts of an animal’s history, a single word can lead to the whole series of ideas associated with its formation, Thus the name linguistic paleontology is ideally suited to the science we have in mind,” (p.14).” (93; 95; 96) A history of philology is missing. Nota need to be filled—another retracing, unfolding narrative. Read the lack of the history , even as valuable as a conventionalone would be, as sym