-- something that, through accident or intention, escapes. The moon -- here, then gone again.
*
but for
light at the edges
György Kurtág:
Kafka-Fragmente op. 24 *
“There is a destination, but no path to it; what we call a path is a hesitation.”
*
15 Nov. 1910, 10 o’clock)
“I will not let myself be made tired. I will dive into my story even if that should lacerate my face.”
*
“Like a pathway in autumn: hardly has it been swept clean, it is covered again with dry leaves.”
(morning light)
It is like a tide, but a small one.
a single word, and all it summons:
abandon
She takes a sheet of paper and writes:
"Let us begin with the exercises now."
One makes a mark. Turn the page, makes another mark.
It is the same, and yet another book. Two lines make a
composition. One line crosses the other to form an X.
Mark. Deletion.
Or, a sign designating "October."
Scraps of fog in the trees & steeples hung with it --
the moment doesn't lift, no
mere erasure. It--
*
Scraps of fog in trees,
on steeples. Hung, the moment
doesn't lift. No ease in that.
*
Perhaps someting was said.
Summation. That there was.
That there is, completion.
I doubt it. I doubt that
21.X.06
"a codex of gestures"
-- Walter Benjamin on Kafka