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- My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what…
- The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
- All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national…
- From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
- His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it…
- The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark…
- But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
- South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to…
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