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‘“Or again, instead of trying to define the other (“What is he?”), I turn to myself: “What do I want, wanting to know you?” What would happen if I decided to define you as a force and not a person? And I were to situate myself as another force confronting yours?”‘
— Sep 13, 2026 01:19PM
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“The English-speaking world is not the world. It doesn’t stand in for and is not equal to the world; its literature is not literature, its philosophy is not philosophy. The translations we do read are their own necessary reminder of this – of everything we are not reading, and yet has been written and is being read by so many others, vast populations of other writers and readers, all the time and everywhere else.
— Jul 24, 2026 02:47PM