I like The Poetics of Decay all the more that it retreats from accountability: you cannot intervene with your own comments; there is no possibility of trackbacks or permalinks. It is discrete – but here is a discretion which shelters the most delicate movement of writing. It is for you to read in admiration and, perhaps, recognition and then to continue the movement of writing, or what you take to be its movement which is only its resonance in you. I would quote from The Poetics of Decay here – much of it lends itself to be quoted, but to do so would be to remove the lines I would quote from the movement to which it belongs, from a singular momentum and intimacy.