"your hand beyond my hand"
Beckett, Thek, Gelman, Meyers, Valentine
Samuel Beckett:
Joyce paid me 250 fr. for about 15 hrs. work on his proofs....He then supplemented it with an old overcoat and 5 ties! I did not refuse. It is so much simpler to be hurt than to hurt.
Paul Thek, “Hippopotamus Poison,” 1965, Wax, stainless steel, and plexiglass, 25 1/4 x 19 1/4 x 11 3/8":
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Juan Gelman (tr. from Spanish by Hardie St. Martin):
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