An Act of Terror

"his male business about who begat whom"

"“Something, I fear, will remain forever incomplete"

"Circle upon circle the different layers of my existence are finally drawn in"

"first humanoids, the inhabitants of Taung three million years ago"

"Everything has become abstract, disembodied. What used to be immediate and original loses its meaning in distance and indeterminacy. If I whisper ‘Two birds in a tree’ in someone’s ear, I need not take responsibility if it emerges at the other side as ‘Who heard the scream?’ That is the way weexpect it to be. We bank on disembodiment and abstraction. The very finger that presses the red button in an ultimate war has been absolved ofresponsibility in advance, as all it does is execute some anonymous decisionor instruction, unleashing a war that takes place at a distance ... No one is present any more. No message is ever fresh, or immediate, or innocent"

"One is also a reaction to it, a rebellion against it; in the process of amplifying or testing it, trying to corroborate it, one also rejects and replaces it"

"Perhaps the whole reason for the chronicle I have been driven for so long to write and which I am now ready, at last, to embark on, is this very need torecord, to thwart forgetfulness, to grasp at that truth which is not so much the opposite of the lie as of forgetting. A-letheia"

"In the late sunlight, into the sunset, into the falling dusk, I walked back. It"