[-empyre-] from the book of questions in honor of passover in the time of plague

[Christina McPhee]

"Do we have a tale here? "
"My story has been told so many times."
"What is your story?"
"Ours, insofar as it is absent."
"I do not understand."
"Speaking tortures me."
"Where are you?"
"In what I say."
"What is your truth?"
"What lacerates me."
"And your salvation?"
"Forgetting what I said."
"May I come in? It is getting dark."
"In each words there burns a wick."
"May I come in ? It is getting dark around my soul."
"It is dark around me, too."
"What can you do for me?"
"Your share of luck is in yourself."
"Writing for the sake of writing does nothing but show contempt."
"Man is a written bond and place."
"I hate what is said in places I have left behind."
"You trade in the future, which is immediately translated. What you have
left is you without you."
"You oppose me to myself. How could I ever win this fight?"

Edmond Jabes, The Book of Questions, Vol. 1. "At the Threshold of the
Book."

Happy Passover.
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