It's only by being shameless about risking the obvious that we happen into the vicinity of the transformative.

I want a literature that is not made from literature.

Even in my dreams I’m shocked
By the criminality that dreams permit.

The experience I am attempting to describe by one tentative approach after another is very precise and is immediately recognizable. But it exists at a level of perception and feeling which is probably preverbal—hence, very much, the difficulty of writing about it.

. . . rationality is no hedge against barbarity.

A simultaneity mark: “⋮” means that narrative time has stopped and what happens on both sides of the mark are simultaneous.