Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Author:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha [Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Literary Criticism, Asian, General
ISBN: 9780520945333
Google: NgQwEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-05-25T00:19:22.622524+00:00

You are this

close to this much

close to it.

Extend arms apart just so, that much. Open

the thumb and the index finger just so.

the thumb and the index finger just so.

That much

you want to kill the time that is oppression itself.

Time that delivers not. Not you, not from its

expanse, without dimension, defined not by its

limits. Airless, thin, not a thought rising even

that there are things to be forgotten. Effortless. It

should be effortless. Effort less ly

the closer it is the closer to it. Away and against

time ing. A step forward from back. Backing

out. Backing off. Off periphery extended. From

imaginary to bordering on division. At least

somewhere in numerals in relation to the

equator, at least all the maps have them at least

walls are built between them at least the militia

uniforms and guns are in abeyance of them.

Imaginary borders. Un imaginable boundaries.

Suffice more than that. SHE opposes Her.

SHE against her.

More than that. Refuses to become discard

decomposed oblivion.

From its memory dust escapes the particles still material still respiration move. Dead air stagnant water still exhales mist. Pure hazard igniting flaming itself with the slightest of friction like firefly. The loss that should burn. Not burn, illuminate. Illuminate by losing. Lighten by loss.

Yet it loses not.

Her name. First the whole name. Then syllable by syllable counting each inside the mouth. Make them rise they rise repeatedly without ever making visible lips never open to utter them.

Mere names only names without the image not hers

hers alone not the whole of her and even the image

would not be the entire

her fraction her invalid that inhabits that rise

voluntarily like flint

pure hazard dead substance to fire.

Others anonymous her detachments take her place. Anonymous against her. Suffice that should be nation against nation suffice that should have been divided into two which once was whole. Suffice that should diminish human breaths only too quickly. Suffice Melpomene. Nation against nation multiplied nations against nations against themselves. Own. Repels her rejects her expels her from her own. Her own is, in, of, through, all others, hers. Her own who is offspring and mother, Demeter and Sibyl.

Violation of her by giving name to the betrayal, all possible names, interchangeable names, to remedy, to justify the violation. Of her. Own. Unbegotten. Name. Name only. Name without substance. The everlasting, Forever. Without end.

Deceptions all the while. No devils here. Nor gods. Labyrinth of deceptions. No enduring time. Self-devouring. Devouring itself. Perishing all the while. Insect that eats its own mate.

Suffice Melpomene, arrest the screen en-trance flickering hue from behind cast shadow silhouette from back not visible. Like ice. Metal. Glass. Mirror. Receives none admits none.

Arrest the machine that purports to employ democracy but rather causes the successive refraction of her none other than her own. Suffice Melpomene, to exorcize from this mouth the name the words the memory of severance through this act by this very act to utter one, Her once, Her to utter at once, She without the separate act of uttering.

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