Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous

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Let us go to the school of writing, where we'll spend three school days initiating ourselves in the strange science of writing, which is a science of farewells. Of reunitings.

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I will begin with: This is what writing is.

I speak to you today (today ApriI 24, 1990, today June 24, 1990) through two languages. From one day to another, from one page to the other, writing changes languages. I have thought certain mysteries in the French language that I cannot think in English. This 10ss and this gain are in writing too. I have drawn the

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You will have recognized it

depending on which language you are immersed in. This is what writing is:

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one language,

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another language, and between the two, the line that

makes them vibrate; writing forms a passageway between two shores.


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