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60 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1982
You say she mustn't speak, like the women of her ancestors, must yield completely to you and to your will, be entirely submissive like peasant women in the barns after the harvest when they're exhausted and let the men come to them while they're asleep. So that you may gradually get used to that shape molding itself to yours, at your mercy as nuns are at God's. And also so that little by little, as day dawns, you may be less afraid of not knowing where to put your body or at what emptiness to aim your love.
You ask how loving can happen-the emotion of loving. She answers: Perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of universe. She says: Through a mistake for instance. She says: Never through an act of will. You ask: Could the emotion of loving come from other things too? You beg her to say. She says: It can come from the flight of a night bird, from a sleep, from a dream of sleep, from the approach of death, from a word, from a crime, of itself, from oneself, often without knowing how.Πράξη μέσα από την απραξία, ένα διαλογικό κείμενο που θα μπορούσε να είναι μονόλογος, δύο φωνές του ίδιου υποκειμένου, ο θάνατος κι η ζωή προσωποποιημένοι. Απαισιόδοξη, ερωτική γραφή, όμοια με όνειρο, μια ιστορία στατική δοσμένη με κινηματογραφική δομή.
If I ever filmed this text I'd want the weeping by the sea to be shot in such a way that the white turmoil of the waves is seen almost simultaneously with the man's face. There should be a correlation between the white of the sheets and the white of the sea. The sheets should be a prior image of the sea. All this by way of general suggestion.προσθέτοντας και τονίζοντας αλλού την απουσία μουσικής αλλά και ομοψυχίας, μέσα από την απομάκρυνση των δυο πρωταγωνιστών επί σκηνής, δημιουργώντας ταυτόχρονα ένα συγκεκριμένο τέμπο, δίνοντας τη μελαγχολική ατμόσφαιρα που κυριεύει το κείμενο και που συνυπάρχει με τη διάχυτη και προγραμματική σεξουαλικότητα.