Tuesday, August 12, 2008

"An athlete in bed"

Paul Devlin sends a great quotation from Gilles Deleuze's Essays Critical and Clinical:
All writing involves an athleticism, but far from reconciling literature with sports or turning writing into an Olympic event, this athleticism is excercised in flight and in the break-down of the organic body - an athlete in bed, as Michaux put it.

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