Communion is cannibalism.
Steiner’s century is closed to further inspection and our books are little else than capsules of complacency.
An upheld hand is a shield for the face an admonishment a plea at times and often threatening. Une menace.
The hand of Amichai is shattered bone and Darwish with him laps water from cups of stone.
Nathalie Stephens writes l'entre-genre in English and French. Touch to Affliction (2006), from which this is excerpted; Je Nathanaël (2003 / 2006); and the essay of correspondence, L'absence au lieu (Claude Cahun et le livre inouvert) (2007), are among her most recent books.