Cuts which are incisions, like decisions,
Cuts which are incisions, like decisions,
because they give shape to the world. Cuts which
Cuts which
Cuts which
Cuts which are incisions, like decisions,
Cuts which make wounds,
because they give shape to the world. Cuts which make wounds,
wounds which secrete and leak,
wounds which secrete and leak, following Burroughs’
following Burroughs’ suggestion that the
suggestion that the cut holds the potential to leak the future.
cut holds the potential to
make wounds, wounds which secrete and leak,
leak the future.
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Wounds which
Wounds which secrete again, by concealing and
Wounds which secrete again,
sealing themselves in scar. Scars like
by concealing and sealing themselves in scar.
Odysseus’, caused by the tusk of a wild boar
Scars like Odysseus’
driving over the knee. Through this rupture in the
Through this rupture in the
again, by
narrative of the Odyssey produced by the
concealing and sealing themselves in scar.
disclosure of the scar, emerges the story of Odysseus’ naming.
emerges the story of Odysseus’ naming.
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Cuts which are the marks which mark us. The
Cuts which are the marks which mark us. The
scar represents a breach in the symbolic fabric and a
marks which mark us. The scar represents
the marks which mark us. The scar
a breach in the symbolic fabric and a break in the
represents a
seal of unity
break in the seal of unity which must be repaired in order to
beginning from this point.
begin, beginning from this point. As such, a
As such, a small scar is often at the origin of
small scar is often at the origin of literary writing.
Scenes of adulteration,
Scenes of adulteration,
intrusions of alterity,
intrusions of alterity,
infractions.
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Not just a
Not just a sense of
Not just a sense of
Not just a sense of graft or hybridity,
graft or hybridity, but of the arrival of the completely undomesticated.
but of the arrival of
The feeling that
The feeling that
The feeling that no anticipation could have
The feeling that no anticipation
prepared you to identify this.
The beautiful is
Not just a
The beautiful is always strange.
Not just a sense