You can read only one writer's work for the rest of your life, who do you choose?
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Replying to @logotrix @meta_nomad
depends on what your’e interested in. but whether theory/fiction, id start near the beginning, the work of fire (a book of essays on literature, fairly accessible), thomas the obscure. the later stuff, in which at a certain point genre seems to disappear, is very, very difficult
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Replying to @inchoarte_brut @meta_nomad
I'm curious about your passion for this thinker - of all you may have chosen, why Blanchot? I'd feel privileged by your response.
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Replying to @logotrix @meta_nomad
“Time, time: the step not beyond that is not accomplished in time would lead outside of time, without this outside being intemporal, but there where time would fall, fragile fall, according to this "outside of time in time" towards which writing would attract us, were we allowed
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having disappeared from ourselves, to write within the secret of the ancient fear.” This is from the first page of The Step Not Beyond, a book of fragments, aphorisms. His oeuvre is replete with these sorts of written enigmas, with which one could grapple for a lifetime.
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Replying to @inchoarte_brut @meta_nomad
Thank you! Looking forward to it. My research topic is surrealism and the notion of "experimental knowledge". Blanchot comes up in some of the secondary reading, but I wasn't sure how to dip in. I really appreciate this.
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read the essay from work of fire, “reflections on surrealism”
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