WORDS ARE ALL WE HAVE // RISD // 2009-2010
words are all we have is a book composed of two separate texts. the first, marguerite duras’ on writing­--a stream of consciousness rant about the act of writing--serves as the primary text. the second, samuel beckett’s the unnameable, provides an austere counterpoint to duras’ alcohol-sodden prose, offering quintessentially beckett-ian quips regarding the relationship of the artist/writer to his own work and the creation of that work. where duras’ writings are classically and elegantly type-set, beckett’s quotations are pixelated interjections which come crashing in, cutting duras off mid-sentence, annotating her words and in places creating caesuras that split through her text.