Saturday, March 31, 2012

the assertion of my life

sisters sleeping, morning, June 2010.
I write: I write because we lived together, because I was one amongst them, a shadow amongst their shadows, a body close to their bodies. I write because they left in me their indelible mark, whose trace is writing. Their memory is dead in writing; writing is the memory of their death and the assertion of my life.
-George Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood via teaching literacy


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