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“Before we met, I had spent a lifetime devoted to Wittgenstein’s idea that the inexpressible is contained—inexpressibly!—in the expressed.”
Quote From 2015 The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson
My Take: Writing doesn’t fail when it brushes the unsayable — it carries it. It’s a reminder that the work isn’t to capture everything perfectly, but to trust that what can’t be said still moves inside what is said. Almost like a quiet permission slip to write boldly, without apology.
I read this book because a University friend used to always greet me with: “Jason - where are your Argonauts?” Of course - he meant the “other” Argonauts. Instead, Maggie Nelson’s “Argonauts” refers to Roland Barthes’ metaphor of the Argo - a ship. The Argo’s planks are replaced over time but it still remains “the Argo”—a way of thinking about how love, identity, and language renew themselves with each use.
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