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Continue to ChatI was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that had already been written. I'm making the margin, but the margin of a book that already exists. I was having this exhilaration at, but at the same time horror of this recognition that I'd driven myself into the world of only books. This is a world of the previously written, and maybe I don't have to add to it, maybe all I can do is measure it. - Vito Acconci from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-was-starting-to-recognize-a-corner-i-was-driving-myself-into-that-all-writing-could-do-was-refer-to-things