I’m Nicholas. I study creative writing and French language at the University of Wollongong, Australia. This is a diary of what I’m reading. These are a few favourite quotes, and are ones that especially capture what I’m trying to do with this blog:
“What quotation tells us, so to speak, is that the past is never dead; it has not even passed at all.”
Leslie Hill, ‘A Form That Thinks’
“Truthfully, at the root of the misunderstanding might be the following: I am constituted as the proprietor of what I analyze, to wit, a metaphysical concept of history as ideal, teleological history, etc. As this concept is much more generally extended than is usually believed, and certainly far beyond the philosophies labelled “idealist,” I am very wary of the concept of history; and the marks of this wariness, […] may have provoked the misunderstandings at first reading.”
“He saw nothing, and, far from being distressed, he made this absence of vision the culmination of his sight.”
Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure
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