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And this is the kind of thing that you have to avoid. There are a great many things you can’t avoid. It’s impos­sible for the source of ener­gy to come to you in Martian or North Korean or Tamil or any lan­guage you don’t know. It’s impos­sible for the source of ener­gy to use images you don’t have, or at least don’t have some­thing of. It’s as if a Martian comes into a room with children’s blocks with A, B, C, D, E which are in English and he tries to convey a mes­sage. This is the way the source of ener­gy goes. But the blocks, on the other hand, are always resis­ting it.

« Vancouver lec­tures »
The House That Jack Built : The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
Wesleyan University Press 1998
éd. Peter Gizzi