Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 09:43:39 -0400
Subject: MB: MB early morning thought


Blanchot's wanting to name the unnamable is like Sade's terminal
theological "perversion", sodomy, it is the desire of total destruction, of
suicide, since it is him who is the writer/God of words, therefor it is God
destroying his creation by creating it. This necessity is one that can only
take place in a temporality of the word, not like Johns' ( in the beginning
was the word... ) but in the present, since past or future are not known to
the word but only to the human/writer who when writing experiences the loss
of time.
we could wonder why - is it Dionysos ( seen as god of creation ) that's
testing him to see if he would sacrifice his only son? but to who/what?
why does maurice blanchot have this fixation on destruction, nihilism and
nothingness. why is it that the major thoughts of this century revolve
around what is not? why think of the unthinkable? why write about the
unwritable? what chase is it?
it could just be what is left to think after thoughts' death.
this is the experience of the wake/mourning of l'écriture - so I think that
is.
BL