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1 " Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada). "
― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable
2 " Some people come from nowhere. "
3 " Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it. "
4 " For if thought that exceeds what has yet beenthought were not possible, the infinite would not be possible, and self/itself or subjectivity its intermediary transcendence/ incendiary. "
5 " That there is a before-speaking, that we did not always speak. "
6 " A mother is the unmemntioable boundarythat can never come fully clear. "
7 " Unfortunately, censure has cut history up. "
8 " When there was no one left, it became nowhere. There were no more letters after the w. "
9 " In us they are the sign of the whole. "
10 " People who are making sense are just making me laugh, is all. "
― Erín Moure
11 " this was passed towriting and the content of a writing burned can no longer behanded back to memory, for writing abolishes memory and as whatwas written can no longer be passed down, it has no Author in the oldsense: no ability to act as proxy to, to verify on behalf of. "
12 " [Take me in your arms] a way of seeing then. "
13 " is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible. "
14 " this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning ofdeath may be understood. Responsibility here is no dictate but all the gravity of love of the neighbour upon which the congenital meaning of that word loverests and which every literary form of its sublimation or profanation(I, je, eu) presupposes. "
15 " There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats. "
16 " If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant. "
17 " To know any thing, time must go backward. "
18 " Numeration comes from 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. The 2 is silence, unanswerable without the 1. How: a means. Are: exist. You: subject, other? "
19 " On the date before the date, time reverses. "
20 " In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive. In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning: prepare to die, and transmit. "
