Lucas Mattos’s Reviews > On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores > Status Update

"...each [book] affirms itself as an exercise in sainthood, inasmuch as sainthood consists in abandoning oneself to the mad [insinsée] chance of sense."

"A book is born in agitation and anxiety, in the fermentation of a form in search of itself, in search of a deployment and appeasement for its impatience" (3).

The book as its own form/Idea (in the Platonic sense)—and, consequently, the work-in-progress as the gestation of a Form—is an incredibly interesting idea to me, and Nancy puts it beautifully here. "[Birth] in agitation and anxiety"...