"It is not the first two persons that function as the condition for literary enunciation; literature begins only when a third person is born in us that strips us of the power to say 'I' (Blanchot's 'neuter')" - Gilles Deleuze, "Literature and Life"
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moments. ... At first I mistook it for passion,
for ecstasy. ... I thought I had found a living volcano, a female
Vesuvius. I never thought I had found a human ship going down in an
ocean of despair, in a Sargasso of impotence. Now I think of that black star
moments. ... At first I mistook it for passion,
for ecstasy. ... I thought I had found a living volcano, a female
Vesuvius. I never thought I had found a human ship going down in an
ocean of despair, in a Sargasso of impotence. Now I think of that black star
gleaming through the hole in the ceiling, that fixed star which hung above
our conjugal cell, more fixed, more remote than the Absolute, and I know it
was her, emptied of all that was properly herself: a dead black sun without
aspect."--------------------- A copperish glow like the face at the bottom of a black hole. The
point is to get out of it, not in art, in other words, in spirit, but in life, in real
life. Don't take away my power to love.
our conjugal cell, more fixed, more remote than the Absolute, and I know it
was her, emptied of all that was properly herself: a dead black sun without
aspect."--------------------- A copperish glow like the face at the bottom of a black hole. The
point is to get out of it, not in art, in other words, in spirit, but in life, in real
life. Don't take away my power to love.