12/31/90

Device: imagine each line separately- as if
hearing them in a foreign language. This is
what I meant by the title "Translation
Without Original."

Another "subject to change" The moment
I declare anything I'm already breathing in the
heady element of spontaneity. I'm "holding the
floor" and now I can "go where
I want" with it. Of course, this freedom
is much more apparent than real. A fascinating
thorough and profound documentation of this fact can be
found in the books of Erving Goffman.

1) Imagine each line separately as if hearing
it in a foreign language.
2) Translate from the French, lets say, into
English- or in "imaginary French."

Later:

Not a "plenitude of things" but a single "thing."

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