Date: 09 Apr 96 12:13:56 EDT
Subject: Copy of: Re: MB: universal library



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DATE:	4/8/96 9:07 AM

RE:	Copy of: Re: MB: universal library

 J.,
I'm not sure what you mean by *not knowing the context*. Doesn't  SL  give you
context?

And no-- I would not say that writing is being attentive to the other.  The
writer, when inspired to write, is seduced by the ambiguious space of
literature;  he/she feels called to the center of the origin of the work (though
he/she later finds that this call had no content).
Never mind-- the point is, one never writes for the other-- I think this is far
to Levinasian.

Though, I do agree with the first part of your *translation* of Blanchotian
terms into non-B. terms: that imperiling a book can in some way be linked to
censorship.  
But I repeat strongly that the work has an existence of its own apart from the
writer or the reader.  The reader, simply by reading, lets off a *weight* by
letting the work be what it is.

Thanks,
Tanya