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" To know which way to go, you need to turn around and see where you're coming from. What is genuinely new is always a development of the tradition. In order to understand the tradition, you need to discover the word's genetic code, seek out the living DNA spiral along which you can trace where all this came from. And if you do untwist that spiral, you will arrive at He Who loves and waits for us all. You simply need to put the words in the one and only order (which is unknown) that makes the chain of words lock on God, so that life can run down it. The writer must find the precise order that makes real blood course under the skin of words. "

Mikhail Shishkin , Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories


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Mikhail Shishkin quote : To know which way to go, you need to turn around and see where you're coming from. What is genuinely new is always a development of the tradition. In order to understand the tradition, you need to discover the word's genetic code, seek out the living DNA spiral along which you can trace where all this came from. And if you do untwist that spiral, you will arrive at He Who loves and waits for us all. You simply need to put the words in the one and only order (which is unknown) that makes the chain of words lock on God, so that life can run down it. The writer must find the precise order that makes real blood course under the skin of words.