Translations from the French
An exerpt from THE IMPOSSIBLE TEXT (iv)
vain to its extremity, it touches nothing but your reflection in the pool, (I cannot unmake myself, by writing, into a bizarre sensation which seems to me to more or less give the verb a croak), well, then the text must stop by its own accord, lying down like a dog at the foot of the wall which it has put up itself, suffocating under the weight of its own constraints, the words tighten- ing like a vice on nothing until they join, mutually devouring themselves instead of swallowing the world once and for all in a vast throat movement, the end: yet it is here everything begins, just as at the present moment I walk somewhere in the world on sand as fine as the grain of your skin, and which flies away at the slightest breeze towards the towns: BIG EVENTS ARE IN PREPARATION : PERHAPS FINALLY THE TEXT OF LIFE. |
1975
Translated by Ellen Nations
Page(s) 38
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