Sublime

‘Manuscripts don’t burn’,

Reality, better say, lost the quotes it wore like claws—in a world where independent and original minds must cling to things or pull things apart in order to ward off madness or death (which is the master madness).

words—Derrida’s famous dictum that “there is nothing outside the text.”

“Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.”

aquel terremoto que en 1946 destruyó media Ciudad Trujillo y provocó un maremoto que dejó a veinte mil dominicanos sin hogar.

Todo se me evapora. Mi vida entera, mis recuerdos, mi imaginación y lo que contiene, mi personalidad, todo se me evapora. Continuamente siento que he sido otro, que he sentido otro, que he pensado otro. Aquello a lo que asisto es un espectáculo con otro escenario. Y aquello a lo que asisto soy yo.

By very definition, said Chesterton, our memories are of what we have forgotten.