"Revision is the opposite of repetition & religion. In the process of stripping the language back to an unnaturally naked state, you want to see what is hidden behind each word, what intention, what fact, then cover it up with something else. Revision is suspicious of first words & assumes they exist only to signal something else, something deeper. I revise what I have written in order to strip away fraud & get to the uncontaminated first intention. By slashing the curtain of words, I might finally glimpse the words behind the words & the silence behind those."-fanny howe
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