An Edmond Jabes Reader: "From the Book to the Book"

Finished the book (From the Book to the Book, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop) in Michigan (where blogging was last on the list and also hard to do, as I was laptopless), so very little of Jabes made it to Blogland.

Still I couldn't resist e-fixing this wonderful paragraph (from a section titled Notebook) long after it was marked for MEMORABLE (the line of blue ink is somehow Hogarthian):
     "The thinker is a seasoned fisherman," he said. "From the sea of the unthought he draws luminous thoughts--moonfish or globefish, pilotfish or flatfish--which, having swallowed the bait, wriggle for a moment between the blue of the sky and the blue of the sea before they stiffen, strangers, on the ground." 

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