to write a book (and not judging the book, the book seems interesting) with a whole section as a chat with chagpt, and say this is fine though because I document it, my reasons are valid, and then publish a hit piece on a much less known writer asserting their work is ai
![[LANGUAGE MESH
Eyeround between the bars.
Glimmeranimal lid rows upward, sets a look free.
Iris, swimmer, dreamless and dismal: the sky, heartgrey, must be near.
Slanted, in the iron socket, the smoking splinter.
By its lightsense you guess the soul.
(Were I like you. Were you like me.
Stand we not under one tradewind?
We are strangers.)
The pavingstones. On them, tight by each other, the two heartgrey pools:
two
mouthfull of silence.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qkbw5tyre3s6iszgxhoeb766/bafkreie5bg77cddrwym6cru4nhdlrsequpvz57b6fnkzw5tq7oidtn32xu)
![[Speak so you, speak as the last, say your say.
Speak—
But split the No not from Yes.
Give your say also the sense: give it the shadow.
Give it shadow enough, give it as much
as you know is assigned to you between midnight and midday and midnight.]
Perhaps addressing himself, Celan recommends a way of speaking that includes fullness and void, No and Yes, clockface and shadow.
Time organizes his assignment of shadow: what you are really mea suring here is that unit of change (or HEtáotaoS) which Simonides compares to the shift of a long-winged fly. Change means loss but a poet can defy it, holding both sides of the moment together, Friday night and Monday morning, absence and presence unsplit. The sentence in which Celan does so is carefully constructed:
Doch scheide das Nein nicht vom Ja.
"Keep yes and no unsplit," is how Michael Hamburger translates this. Yet the German word order does split das Nein from Ja by the negative adverb nicht. In between No and Yes Celan places the poet's Power to cancel their difference, his license to double the negative of death. The poem's next stanza celebrates it:
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