Excerpt from the Book of the Dead – Jabes (replete with traces)

Edmond Jabes - from "The Cut of Time"
Edmond Jabes – from “The Cut of Time”

“Why render that experience through fiction?  First, because we are only fiction.

We are only the idea we have of ourselves.”

-Edmond Jabes-

"A word is a bridge thrown between myself and an other - a territory shared by both" - M. Bakhtin