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François Rabelais’ Last Words
These are a set of drawings for Waterfall, a Taiwanese literary magazine edited by my friend 268. The theme of this issue is snow cake, which references 268’s short written pieces about transmitting and archiving speech in blocks of ice, to be melted and its contents released.
More »This idea of delivering meaning through such a process reminded me of a short passage from George Steiner’s Real Presences, where he recalled François Rabelais’ fantastical depiction of words: “Rabelais, a man word-possessed, fancied that all sentences spoken or set down since the inception of man were ‘frozen,’ were preserved intact in some intermediate sphere, from which the heat of recollection, of need, of anguish, could melt and recall them. Expelled from silence, language does its irreparable work.”
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