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"Les personnes qui dorment mal semblent plus ou moins coupable: que font-ils? Ils rendent la nuit présent." -Blanchot

they make the night present.

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"I am more like an earthworm, he thought. Which is also a kind of gardener. Or a mole, also a gardener, that does not tell stories because it lies in silence[...] At least, he thought, at least I have not been clever, and come back to Sea Point full of stories of how they beat me in the camps... I was mute and stupid in the beginning, I will be mute and stupid at the end. There is nothing to be ashamed of in being simple."Life and Times of Michael K