Maurice Blanchot is dead.

[baba]

I know u will not probably care or even know who he was but I'm grief stricken.I just found out that my favourite writer in the world ever will write no more - woe woe woe!

[invisibleplanet]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,905220,00.html

http://www.literature.routledge.com/literature/rct/blanchot.html

Maurice Blanchot b.1907, d.2003

sorry to say i had not heard of him before this day, baba,
and so whilst I cannot feel the loss u feel,
I will read about him, and find out what his life's work was about.

what did you (personally) find special about him?

[baba]

That's a really difficult question in a way. I guess reading blanchot does things to my mind I can't quantify, an obscure wierd space seems to open in my head - its something like having a thought that isn't yours or a thought that is so fluid you can't grasp it even though it is your mind that is thinking it. Thought beyond language but inside language -like I said it don't make sense. All I know is that it is beautiful and hurts a bit...