I Don't Feel That It

Domination Is Not That Solid And Global Kind Of Domination That One Person Exercises Over Others, Or One Group Over Another, But The Manifold Forms Of Domination That Can Be Exercised Within Society.

[raymond Roussel] Said That After His First Book He Expected That The Next Morning There Would Be A Kind Of Aura Around His Person And That Everyone In The Street Would Be Able To See That He Had Written A Book. This Is The Obscure Desire Harboured By Everyone Who Writes. It Is True That The First Text One Writes Is Neither Written For Others, Nor Because One Is What One Is: One Writes To Become Other Than What One Is. One Tries To Modify One's Way Of Being Through The Act Of Writing.

The Judges Of Normality Are Present Everywhere. We Are In The Society Of The Teacher-judge, The Doctor-judge, The Educator-judge, The Social Worker-judge.

There Is No Binary Division To Be Made Between What One Says And What One Does Not Say; We Must Try To Determine The Different Ways Of Not Saying Things.

The Intellectual Was Rejected And Persecuted At The Precise Moment When The Facts Became Incontrovertible, When It Was Forbidden To Say That The Emperor Had No Clothes.