Unreadable,

notes

originally published in

The Nameless

eyedrum

atlanta , georgia

"Every written work can be regarded as the prologue (or rather, the broken cast [cera persa]) of a work never penned, and destined to remain so, because later works, which in turn will be the prologues (preludi) or the moulds (calchi) for other absent works, represent only sketches (schegge) or death masks (maschere mortuarie). The absent work (l'opera assente), although it is unplaceable in any precise chronology, thereby constitutes the written works as prolegomena or paralipomena of a non-existent text; or, in a more general sense, as parerga which find their true meaning only in the context of an illegible ergon."

from Infancy and History , Giorgio Agamben