Author: J. Hillis Miller

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• Andrei Codrescu (1)
  • IN: Whatever Gets You Through the Night (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If writing is initially a form of scratching or engraving, the cutting of a line, penetration of some hard substance with a marking tool, it may also, after the invention of pencils and pens, he thought of as the pouring out on a flat surface of a long line or filament, lead or ink making a cursive line of characters stamping, cutting, contaminating, or deflowering the virgin of paper, according to a not very "submerged" sexual metaphor.
    FROM: Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines, (1992), Book, US