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Glissant is such an amazing writer like this guy has never ever missed

The only way to live the inextricable while escaping damnation is to extract oneself from "History," to remain self-sufficient and petrify oneself, without hope and without illusion. That is what Faulknerian Negroes do.

To point out and to hide a secret or a bit of knowledge (that is, to postpone its discovery): this is a great part of Faulkner's project and the motif around which his writing is organized.