Status Updates From Ei muuta

Yann Andreas: Preocupa-se com o quê?
Duras: Escrever. Uma ocupação trágica, isso é, vinculada à corrente da vida. Estou dentro dela sem esforço.

Depois, na mesma tarde.
YA: Tem um título para o próximo livro?
MD: Sim. O livro para desaparecer.

…Of which the fictions— that lying-as-truth, according to the poet Aragon's for-mula-evoke the long shadows, the bare spaces, and the magical current which traverses them.

To write, to love. Both lead to disorders and to delights, both are experienced in the same defiance of knowledge reduced to despair, both come to terms with the most opaque realms of the mind where nothing is mastered.

If the lover erases contingency, if he remains a chosen intermediary by which the world recovers its lustre, he is not, for all that, the subject of a cult offered to him alone. He may serve as the excuse for an apology of desire for desire's sake, having no hold over the woman who loves him.