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“Will he have ejaculated into the galaxy?”

“Where are we?”

“Blank, as always, between two antherections, an interior margin between two supplementary columns that seem detached one from the other.”

"If it destroys everything including its letter and its body, how can the burn-all keep a trace of itself and start a history in which it preserves itself by losing itself?"

"What am I doing here? Let's say that I am working at the origin of literature by miming it."

“…to suspend the bell in the middle of the two towers […] I write myself on that. On the headstock, between the two.”

“No common measure at the very moment when you think you are engaging/disengaging, manipulating, orchestrating, raising or lowering the musical liquid by playing the pedals. The columns play with you, threatening to collapse one upon the other and leave you no way out.

No clang without some machinery being interposed.

That isn’t handled like a quill.”

"the work asks the author to surpass the poor person in himself, one not up to the task…yes"

“I have introduced myself as third party, between [Genet's] mother and him. I have given him up. I’ve made blood speak.”

“I am looking for the right metaphor for the enterprise I am pursuing here. I’d like to describe my gesture, the posture of my body behind this machine” ("this machine" being, I'm guessing, the portable Olivetti typewriter he wrote much of the Genet column of Clang on).

"I forget, in a way, everything ... I read. Except for this or that sentence, or phrase, seemingly secondary, one whose seeming little importance does not in any case justify this sort of resonance, this obsessive echoing that keeps itself, detached, so long after the increasingly rapid engulfing of all the rest."

"I'm exposing myself there, I lean that way a lot."

“And yet there is stone. What does there is mean once we subtract what there is from the it is, from this is, from the ostension of any presence? Speaking of the process of [Ereignis], Heidegger liberates the es gibt in es gibt Sein, from the all-powerful precession of being. Let us wager that the value of the gift … will have pre-occupied everything.”

"...it was necessary to extract from within the elaborated text the instrument of reading or of writing, the style with which to treat it; with which to write, that is to say fold the metalanguage."

"The detached remains stuck thereby, by the glue of differance, by the a. The a of gl agglutinates the different detachings. The scaffold of A is gluey."