“A mother is the unmemntioable boundarythat can never come fully clear.”

“In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive. In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning: prepare to die, and transmit.”

“Some people come from nowhere.”

“Numeration comes from 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. The 2 is silence, unanswerable without the 1. How: a means. Are: exist. You: subject, other?”

“this was passed towriting and the content of a writing burned can no longer behanded back to memory, for writing abolishes memory and as whatwas written can no longer be passed down, it has no Author in the oldsense: no ability to act as proxy to, to verify on behalf of.”

“Experience appears in this world as a birth. A birth which takes as assistants sky and earth and the water and wood and mountains and the clouds. Experience does not come out of the mind or imagination but from a deep and irrecusable need. It rents the entire person.”

“There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.”