The White Paper (1958)
“Did I? Perhaps. Another? Probably. Do we not become others the moment after we've done writing? A posthumous book? That too is probable; are we not today yesterday's dead? Antehumous? The thought is not impossible. We have our ears glued to mothering wombs these days, eager to detect the first peep of the prenatal poem that will break the record in the child prodigy-class. Would The White Paper be autobiographical then? In which case I refuse its paternity, for what I find charming here is that... the author talks without talking about himself.
Were I, now, to write an autobiographical book, it wouldn't be limited to describing what by common consent is called vice. It would abound in sexual commonplaces which as inked out by me would assume some singular delineations.
Too many and too limiting are the circumstances which, clearly, disqualify The White Paper from appearing under my signature. However, indeed as I were, and as I own, still tempted to lay my name thereto, as theft doth tempt our fingers unto the seizure of an object that the perilousness and the gratuity of the act gild glisteningly.MoreLess
Were I, now, to write an autobiographical book, it wouldn't be limited to describing what by common consent is called vice. It would abound in sexual commonplaces which as inked out by me would assume some singular delineations.
Too many and too limiting are the circumstances which, clearly, disqualify The White Paper from appearing under my signature. However, indeed as I were, and as I own, still tempted to lay my name thereto, as theft doth tempt our fingers unto the seizure of an object that the perilousness and the gratuity of the act gild glisteningly.MoreLess
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