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For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

Edmond Jabes
Writing, Miracle, Discovering
Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.27, Wesleyan University Press
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.