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God does not need courage because he knows what he does. But the writer invents without knowing what.
—Hélène Cixous, “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays
The academician, like God, labors all six days, year by year, to
know his search and research, to accumulate,
by increments, the underpinning, the facts of being. But on the seventh it would be sacrilege, for the seventh day is the day of rest from the facts: it is the day of the artist.
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