Tuesday
Jun052012

Take that!

“If quotations, in their fragmenting force, destroy in advance the texts from which they are not only severed but which they exalt till these texts become nothing but severance, then the fragment without a text, or any context, is radically unquotable.”

—Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster 

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