A Breath of Life by unknow
Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Published: 2022-04-13T00:00:00+00:00
How Can You Transform Everything into a Daydream?
AUTHOR: The fact is more important than the text.
Facts trip me up. That is why I am now going to write about not-facts, that is, about things and their gaudy mystery.
The sensation of writing is curious. When I write Iâm not thinking about the reader or myself: then I amâbut only from meâI am the words strictly speaking.
ANGELA: I like words. Sometimes a random and scentillating phrase occurs to me, without having anything to do with the rest of me.9 From now on Iâm going to write in this diary, on days when thereâs nothing else to do, phrases almost on the edge of meaninglessness but that sound like words of love. Saying meaningless words is my great freedom. It matters little to me to be understood, I want the impact of dazzling syllables, I want the noxiousness of a bad word. Everything is in the word. What Iâd give, however, not to have this mistaken desire to write. I feel like Iâm being pushed. By whom?
I want to write with words so completely stuck together that there are no gaps between them and me.
I want to write really angry. As for me, Iâm from far away. Very far. And from me comes the pure smell of kerosene.
AUTHOR: The word is the defecation of the thought. It glistens.
Every book is blood, itâs pus, itâs excrement, itâs heart torn to shreds, itâs nerves cut to pieces, itâs electric shock, itâs coagulated blood running like boiling lava down the mountain.
ANGELA: Oh I no longer want to express myself with words: I want to do so with âI-kiss-you.â
AUTHOR: I occasionally, I who am writing, seek for every word the unconscious pop of a mortifying feeling.
ANGELA: I want to write and canât do it. I want to write a story called: âA Foot.â And another called: âYouâre So Severe.â In what I write is there nothing between the lines? If thatâs the case, Iâm lost.
The novel I want to write would be âItâs Like Trying to Remember. And Not Being Able.â
âThereâs a book inside all of us,â they say. And maybe thatâs why I wanted to expel from me a book that Iâd write if I had the talent, and also the perseverance.
Iâm feeling like a mermaid out of water. On one half of me the scales are jewels shining in the sun of life. For I came out of the sea into life. And I wriggle my body atop a large rock combing my long salty hair. I donât know why I wrote that, I think itâs so I wonât forget to take note of something.
I donât write, for Iâm lazy and fluttering. I want to live so much and I think that writing isnât living. That itâs enough to feel. I canât do anything for myself in this sense: Iâve already freed myself from my typewriter and demand to be left to my destiny.
AUTHOR: I donât write because I want to, no. I write because I must.
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