RafaelFajardo

I don’t think that “this” equals “that”; I don’t think in that kind of mode, that way of thinking. That kind of thinking, “this” equals or means “that,” is identity thinking, thinking concerned with meaning as closure. Let’s look at this problem another way: I don’t work in any way that is pure. Either, as a writer, you take a stance that one is going to talk only about oneself, whatever that “self” is – and if you can find it, you’re doing pretty well – or you engage in practices that are impure, you make clear, a bit à la Sartre, that they are impure. What I do is obviously very impure. I don’t re-enact other texts, I directly appropriate: I directly and bluntly use these other experiences which aren’t “mine.” Only they’re mine because I’ve read them. Or heard them, etc. This is part of what it is to be human: to realize that one can’t see from the perspective of absolute morality, be it even a literary morality.