First, literature. What we call a βsourceβ is actually fixed, an era's sediment in its written signs. But just one hammer blow, and the water spurts from the rock.
A letter of the alphabet also contains an immediate secret, like the corals in the petrified reef. The molecules have remained as they were shaped by life and they can be reanimated.
A supratemporal core can be discovered in matter and liberated from it. These are resurrections. Here, the view leads beyond knowledge β indeed, beyond art β to the high noon of the present. The hand that wrote the text becomes one's own. At the same time, quality becomes less important; the drama of history is woven entirely from the yarn of the Norns. The distinctions are created by the interplay of the folds, not by the cloth. People used to say, βBefore God all are equal.β
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