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'"Our body," said Nietzsche, who in many ways stands outside
the tradition, "is a social structure composed of many souls."
Michaux also declares that we are multiple, carried this way
or that by influences of different intensity, from various
sources, "born," as he puts it, "of too many mothers." "There
is no one self. There are no ten selves. There is no self.
SELF is only a position of equilibrium. (One among a thousand
others continually possible and always ready.)" To follow
through anyone's thinking, even that of an Aristotle, is to
find that he is ill-informed about his own thought and its
components: "His intentions, his passions, his _libido
dominandi,_ his mythomania, his nervousness, his desire to be
right, to triumph, to seduce, to astonish, to believe and to
compel belief in what he likes, to deceive, to conceal
himself, his appetites, and his disgusts, his complexes, and
his whole life, harmonized without his knowing it, in organs,
in glands, in the hidden life of the body, in his physical
deficiencies, all of this is unknown to him."
When this fluid, elastic self attempts to come to grips with
the world of objects, it is necessarily incapable of
dominating them; they slip away.'
- From Richard Ellmann's Introduction to Henri Michaux,
Selected Writings: The Space Within, New Directions, undated,
translated by Ellmann, French edition 1944, pp. xv-xvi
'March 31, Tuesday [1942]
_LTI._ The language brings it out into the open. Perhaps
someone wants to conceal the truth by speaking. But the
language does not lie. Perhaps someone wants to utter the
truth. But the language is more truth than he is. There is no
remedy against the truth of language. Medical researchers can
fight a disease as soon as they have recognized its essential
properties. Philologists and poets recognize the essential
properties of language, but they cannot prevent language from
testifying to the truth.'
- Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness, A Diary of the Nazi
Years, 1942-1945, translated by Martin Chalmers, Random House,
1991, p. 35, March 31, Tuesday, 1942
LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii, Victor Klemperer, 'studies the way
that Nazi propaganda altered the German language to inculcate
people with the ideas of Nazism'
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