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Hope
“Hope: the following page. Do not close the book.” “I have turned all the pages of the book without finding hope.” “Perhaps hope is the book.” - Jabés, The Book of Questions Vol. 1 (trans. R. Waldrop) ...
The word which escapes me
A scholar: I settle in my work, but the work is unaware of it. The more I care about what I write, the more I cut myself off from the sources of my writing. The more sincere I want to be, the more the faster I must let the words take over: I cannot r...
Dialogue of the Ferryman and the River-Dweller
River-dweller: I cannot get to the other bank without your help. Ferryman, tell me of the other bank. Ferryman: For me, it is the bank to get to, just like this one is when I am over there. River-dweller: Is it like the banks of my childhood? It is s...
The summer of death
We are at the heart of creation, absent from the All, in the marrow and moire of Absence, with the Void for recourse, for a means to be and to survive. So that, in the creative act, we are and even surpass the Void facing the restoring All. Book...
The word
And Yukel said: ‘One evening I found myself facing death: a young girl with fascinating eyes. By and by (perhaps because I was thinking of a white rose while looking at her) she took the shape of my dreams and her perfume upset me even more. I sugg...
Uncertainty
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. – Jabés ...
‘Earth, earth, where all is simple’
‘God reveals Himself: an imagination prey to the loss of its image.’ ‘I know you, Lord, in the measure that I do not know you. For you are He who comes.’ ‘My God, I am reduced to you. I have exiled the word.’ * ‘Try to kill Him ...
Question
What’s a question? X asks me. What does it mean to question? Let’s tackle a big question for once. Well a question is a kind of sin, isn’t it? he asks. The assumption that it’s possible to question the divine order. But, X asks, doesn’t th...
