That is a chapter title in Sandy Petrey, Speech Acts and Literary Theory, a photocopied book I am recycling, and that I would like to study again. But it can be bought now, again, as a book, not a pile of paper. Petrey talks about the referent as something real. “The continental masters of doubt among whom Felman and others persuasively set Austin ground their insights on the referent’s eternal absence; Austin’s theory is concomitant with the referent’s presence in all things we do with words” (113). This book is incredibly smart because it DOES take continental theory seriously.
I would like to take a Saturday with nothing else to do, in bright weather, and walk on the beach and then study just this chapter in a luminous space. And think about it. It would change me completely. But keeping the photocopy with me will not bring this situation closer.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
This book got past me but it looks good! Thanks for telling us about it.