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At one point (69-70), there is an element of plot: "The ring you gave me was made of glass and it broke and love ended. But sometimes in its place there comes the beautiful hatred of those who loved each other and who devoured each other. " One is caught in a long pseudonarrative, which starts with an interruption, with the breaking of the glass ring. By the first breaking (it is the song of a child), the ring is the link; it links; there is linking and then comes the chair: "The chair in front is an object for me.
Behind my thought is the truth that is the world's. " Illogical is what lacks logos, what is silence. " 'God' is such an enormous silence that it terrifies me. Who could have invented the chair? You need courage to write what comes: one never knows what would come and frighten. The sacred monster has died. In its place was born a girl orphaned of her mother. " One must look at the braiding of interruption and noninterruption, which, in addition, has at stake the creation of a world without subject, without author.
At one point (69-70), there is an element of plot: "The ring you gave me was made of glass and it broke and love ended. But sometimes in its place there comes the beautiful hatred of those who loved each other and who devoured each other. " One is caught in a long pseudonarrative, which starts with an interruption, with the breaking of the glass ring. By the first breaking (it is the song of a child), the ring is the link; it links; there is linking and then comes the chair: "The chair in front is an object for me.