Saturday, April 15, 2006
excellent Bruno Schulz site I've posted before. The translations here are better than the published ones.
"My father was inexhaustible in his glorification of that uncanny element, as such was matter.--There is no dead matter--he taught--lifelessness is merely an outward show, behind which unidentified forms of life lie concealed. The range of those forms is endless, and their shades and nuances inexhaustible. The Demiurgus was in possession of valuable and interesting creative recipes. Thanks to these, he called into being a multitude of generations, renewing themselves by their own strength. No one knows whether those recipes will ever be reconstructed. But it matters not, for even should those classical methods of creation prove once and for all inaccessible, certain illegal methods remain, a whole host of heretical and illicit methods."