The Mystic Fable

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• The copyist transformed his body into the spoken word of the other; he imitated and incarnated the text into a liturgy of reproduction. Simultaneously, he gave body to the verb ("verbum caro factum est") and made the verb into his own body ("hoc est corpus meum") in a process of assimilation that eliminated differences, to make way for the sacrament of the copy. The translator [...] was an operator of differentiation. Like the ethnologist, he presented a foreign region, even though he did so to give an adaptation of it by allowing it to disturb his own language. He produced otherness, but within a field that didn't belong to him any more than that other language did, a field in which he had no right of authorship. He produced, but without any place of his own, in that no-man's-land, on tha... (查看原文)

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