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The Unmemntioable QUOTES

The Unmemntioable QUOTES

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. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

3 " Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

4 " For if thought that exceeds what has yet been
thought were not possible, the infinite would not be possible, and self/
itself or subjectivity its intermediary transcendence/ incendiary. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

5 " That there is a before-speaking, that we did
not always speak. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

6 " A mother is the unmemntioable boundary
that can never come fully clear. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

7 " Unfortunately, censure has cut history up. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

8 " When there was no one left, it became nowhere. There were no more letters after the w. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

9 " In us they are the sign of the whole. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

10 " this was passed to
writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be
handed back to memory, for writing abolishes memory and as what
was written can no longer be passed down, it has no Author in the old
sense: no ability to act as proxy to, to verify on behalf of. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

11 " [Take me in your arms] a way of seeing then. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

12 " is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

13 " this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is
a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning of
death 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 love
rests and which every literary form of its sublimation or profanation
(I, je, eu) presupposes. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

14 " 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. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

15 " To know any thing, time must go backward. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

16 " 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? "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

17 " On the date before the date, time reverses. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

18 " 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. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

19 " mine is an ongoing subsection more passive than any passivity. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable

20 " There were cries, screech , it weep.
The rest weep from we, who emerge.
There was one wall of weeping. And we have parted with you. "

― Erín Moure , The Unmemntioable