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“Reading unfolds like a game called ‘I,’ in public gardens in good weather, in a series of worn-down hotel rooms, in museums in winter, where ‘I’ is the composite figure who is going to write but hasn’t yet.”
― Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal

“Do you ever wish to quit the daily comedy of transforming into the I-speaker without abandoning the wilderness of sensing? The sensation isn’t morbid; it is ultimately disinterested.”
― Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal

“literary acts are inherently disembodied, more notional and distributed. We rely on you to embody us, and we exist because you can.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“I’VE OBSERVED A TENDENCY—IN the Anglophone world, at least—to lament what is purportedly lost in translation without acknowledging what is undeniably gained.”
― Mithu Sanyal, Identitti