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E.B. White
“He wiped his face with his handkerchief, for he was quite warm from the exertion of being Chairman of the World. It had taken more running and leaping and sliding than he had imagined.”
E.B. White, Stuart Little

E.B. White
“Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.”
E.B. White, Stuart Little

“Come! into the open, friend! admittedly only a little is gleaming today
down and narrowly the heaven is enclosing us.
Neither the mountains have yet risen of the forest
the peak as wished and empty the air is resting of singing
It’s dull today, the ways and lanes are slumbering and nearly it may
seem to me to be as in the leaden time.
Nevertheless the wish succeeds, true believers don’t have doubts about One
hour and to the pleasure the day must furthermore be dedicated.”
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin

Adrienne Rich
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”
Adrienne Rich

Julio Cortázar
“Y así, de feuille en aiguille, pienso en esos estados excepcionales en que por un instante se adivinan las hojas y las lámparas invisibles, se las siente en un aire que está fuera del espacio. Es muy simple, toda exaltación o depresión me empuja a un estado propicio a
lo llamaré paravisiones
es decir (lo malo es eso, decirlo)
una aptitud instantánea para salirme, para de pronto desde fuera aprehenderme, o de dentro pero en otro plano,
como si fuera alguien que me está mirando
(mejor todavía —porque en realidad, no me veo— : como alguien que me está viviendo).
No dura nada, dos pasos a la calle, el tiempo de respirar profundamente (a veces al despertarse dura un poco más, pero entonces es fabuloso)
y en ese instante sé lo que soy porque estoy exactamente sabiendo lo que no soy (eso que ignoraré luego astutamente). Pero no hay palabras para una materia palabra y visión pura, como un bloque de evidencia. Imposible objetivar, precisar ese defectividad que aprehendí en el instante y que era clara ausencia o claro error o clara insuficencia pero
sin saber de qué, qué.
Otra manera de tratar de decirlo: Cuando es eso, ya no estoy mirando hacia el mundo, de mí a lo otro, sino que por un segundo soy el mundo, el plano de fuera, lo demás mirándome. Me veo como pueden verme los otros. Es inapreciable: por eso dura apenas. Mido mi defectividad, advierto todo lo que por ausencia o defecto no nos vemos nunca. Veo lo que no soy. Por ejemplo (esto lo armo de vuelta, pero sale de ahí): hay enormes zonas a las que no he llegado nunca, y lo que no se ha conocido es lo que se es. Ansiedad por echar a correr, entrar en una casa, en esa tienda, saltar a un tren, devorar todo Jouhandeau, saber alemán, conocer Aurangabad... Ejemplos localizados y lamentables pero que pueden dar una idea. (¿una idea?)
Otra manera de querer decirlo: Lo defectivo se siente más como una pobreza intuitiva que como una mera falta de experiencia.”
Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

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