Scrap Writing in the Digital Age

Posts Tagged ‘georges perec

Random Quotation

Posted by: dkoupf on: July 12, 2009

“With this panic about losing track of myself there went a fury for preserving and for classifying. I kept everything:  letters with their envelopes, cinema checkouts, airline tickets, bills, cheque stubs, handouts, receipts, catalogues, notices of meetings, weekly papers, dried-up felt pens, empty cigarette lighters, even gas and electricity receipts for a flat I hadn’t [...]

Random Quotation

Posted by: dkoupf on: July 10, 2009

“To write:  to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.” From:  Perec, Georges. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. Ed. and trans. John Sturrock. New York:  Penguin [...]

Random (Long) Quotation

Posted by: dkoupf on: July 9, 2009

“There are few events which don’t leave a written trace at least. At one time or another, almost everything passes through a sheet of paper, the page of a notebook, or of a diary, or some other chance support (a Métro ticket, the margin of a newspaper, a cigarette packet, the back of an envelope [...]


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