The very definition of a serious book is that it is one which should have been better.
– George Steiner, [1984] Preface to the Second Edition, Language and Silence (1967)
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Death Mask
The work is the death mask of its conception.
– Walter Benjamin, “The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses” in One-Way Street (1928) [this is the very last thesis]
ANDREW GALLIX 