In Memory of M.B.

Burn all the books. The word is eternal. L’écriture—la maison de l’être. In abandonment, the writer writes to abandon what has been written in order that writing can be written in abandonment. To write is to leave a trace of writing, unwritten and illegible. The book shows itself as the corpus, as the corpse, of the writer. Burn all the bodies so that the book can remain in what is to come, unformed, deformed, reformed, performed, conformed. Blanchot remains. Ten years on: Livre. Vivre. Liberté. Dé-livrance.