deeper than did ever plummet sound

"Write yourself. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth."
-Hélène Cixous: Le rire de la Méduse, 1975; trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen in: Signs I, 1976

"Write! and your self-seeking text will know itself better than flesh and blood, rising, insurrectionary dough kneading itself, with sonorous, perfumed ingredients, a lively combination of flying colors, leaves, and rivers plunging inot the sea we feed. […] But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bandless; and we ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves… More or less wavily sea, earth, sky–– what matter would rebuff us? We know how to speak them all."
-Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa, 1975; trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen, Signs I, 1976