Gary G Gach "Compassion" "Beginner's mind" "Close to the nose" "Speech as she is spoke" "Tailoring"

QUOTATIONS FROM EDMOND JABÈS 3

May 30, 2008

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish.

There is my desert.

Eric Nichols says:

I can honesty attest to the

I can honesty attest to the fact that I have finished every book I started. Now, getting them published is another matter entirely. :) :(

The blank page has never been daunting for me....I guess that's a gift...and a curse.

But even a desert can be full of life. As can dessert. :)

 

eric

Gary G Gach says:

comment on Jabès quotation

thank you, eric, for your comment on the third quote

 

it raises numerous questions

 

for example, are you the same person who finishes a book who began one