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" The author is the interface between earth and sky. Between life and text. It is he who can lead people out of time and into forever.



Languages is a means of resurrection. … Words must be made living not only until the cock crows but so the they cannot die anymore. I have to suck dead time out of the word and blow living time in, mouth to mouth—and force it to breathe, like a drowning victim. I have to resurrect it to eternal life with our breath. I have to use words to create a reality where there is no death.

Death can be overcome only by the word and by love. "

Mikhail Shishkin , Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories


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Mikhail Shishkin quote : The author is the interface between earth and sky. Between life and text. It is he who can lead people out of time and into forever.<br /><br />…<br /><br />Languages is a means of resurrection. … Words must be made living not only until the cock crows but so the they cannot die anymore. I have to suck dead time out of the word and blow living time in, mouth to mouth—and force it to breathe, like a drowning victim. I have to resurrect it to eternal life with our breath. I have to use words to create a reality where there is no death.<br /><br />Death can be overcome only by the word and by love.