Like Wittgenstein's ladder in the Tractatus that must be kicked away or Wallace Stevens' supreme fiction, Notebook of Forgetting belongs to a tradition of negative poetic and philosophical projects--projects that, in their attempts to say the unsayable, are doomed to failure from the start. Even so, the attempt to say is revealing: marking out, as it does, the territory of the sayable. Searching out words to say the thing that is really at stake,...
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