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 rejected and reclaimed by the book. The word, for which I was pain and meditation, discovers that its true place is the non-place where God lives resplendent with not being, with never having been.
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Death is of this world. It is on our planet that we will live death, along with plants and days.
Where I go, night overtakes me.
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Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?
And yet
I am certain I exist in the crystal of writings whose luster I could keep in check if I wanted. The world is within me, and I exist through the world.
Did I know, when I let the first sentences of the book invade me, did I know that it would lead me from threshold to threshold to the summer of death?
— Jabés, The Book of Questions (trans. R. Waldrop)
Notes from a Room 