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And with these, the sense of the world’s concreteness, irreducible, immediate, tangible, of something clear and closer to us: of the world, no longer as a journey having constantly to be remade, not as a race without end, a challenge having constantly to be met, not as the one pretext for a despairing acquisitiveness, nor as the illusion of a conquest, but as the rediscovery of a meaning, the perceiving that the earth is a form of writing, a geography of which we had forgotten that we ourselves are the authors.
-Georges Perec, from The Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Zowie.
From “The World,” Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, tr. John Sturrock (Penguin, 1999), 79.
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Zowie. From “The World,”...Pieces, tr. John Sturrock (Penguin, 1999), 79.
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