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Speech and the Blank Pages

In language, you become another. The self slips away. In Borges’ library, you do not exist. You are nothing but the repetition of others.

LYJ

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Speech and the Blank Pages

In language,

you become another.

The self slips away.

 

In Borges’ library,

you do not exist.

You are nothing

but the repetition

of others.

 

The first page

and the last—

are the same.

Blank.

Wordless.

WRITTEN BY

LYJ

A drifter in Beijing, drawn to literature, history, and ancient architecture. Through books, I live an unseen second life; through reading, I arrive in places I’ve never set foot in.Read more

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