What does it mean to be reborn? By what power might you give birth to yourself? What must draw back in order for you to live? Soul, that you do not live is because you are too close to memory. Let it draw back, memory, remembering. Write, but not to remember, but to set forgetting off against memory. Write – not to remember, but to allow the shining of remembering set off the darkness of forgetting, and the return of forgetting.
Do not write in order to conserve. Do not seek to bring memories forward by means of writing. I remember – only to forget. I remember – but only to sacrifice my past to forgetting, and that is writing – sacrificial ritual, the Wicker man of memory. Writing, cage that binds together those memories that will be sacrificed by writing. So does writing sacrifice itself to itself. So does it seek to return to itself as a calm, burning surface – sun that is lit from the sacrifice of time.
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