This is what matters, but it is unspeakable. Untranslatable: I talk in general terms Because the particular has no language.

You are all people To whom has happened, at most a continual impact Of external events. You have gone through life in sleep. Never woken to the nightmare. I te…

You isolate the single event As something so dreadful that it couldn't have happened Because you could not bear it. So you must believe That I suffer from delu…

All that I can hope to make you understand Is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened Cannot understand the unimportan…