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The reasons for writing a book can be brought back to the desire to modify the
existing relations between a man and his fellow beings. These relations are
judged unacceptable and are perceived as an atrocious misery. (Georges Batail!e,
Oeuvres Completes, vol. 2, 143)
Or else, it is community itself - though it is nothing, it is not a collective
subject - that never stops, in writing, sharing itself.
The anguish which you do not communicate to your fellow being is in some way
scorned and mistreated. It has only to the weakest extent the power to reflect the
glory that comes from the depth of the heavens. (O.c. 5: 444)
In My Mother, Helene, the mother, writes to her son:
I admire myself fo r writing to you like this, and I marvel to think that my letter is
worthy of you, (O,C. 4: 260)
But this hand that writes is dying, and through this death promised to it, it
escapes accepted limits by writing, (O.c. 3: 12)
I would say, rather: it exposes these limits, it never passes beyond them, nor
passes beyond community, But at every instant singular beings share their
limits, share each other on their limits. They escape the relationships of society
('mother' and 'son', 'author' and 'reader', 'public figure' and 'private figure',
'producer' and 'consumer'), but they are in community, and are unworked,
I have spoken of a community as existing: Nietzsche brought his affirmations to
this, but remained alone ... The desire to communicate is born in me out of a
feeling of community binding me to Nietzsche, and not out of an isolated
originality. (O.c. 5: 39)
We can only go farther.
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