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What a curiosity it was to hold a pen—nothing but a small pointed stick, after all, oozing hieroglyphic puddles: a pen that speaks, miraculously, Polish. A lock removed from the tongue. Otherwise the tongue is chained to the teeth and the palate. An immersion into the living language: all at once this cleanliness, this capacity, this power to make a history, to tell, to explain.
To retrieve, to reprieve!
To lie.