
(“Aely,” I repeated, “Aely, the elsewhere of an unimaginable elsewhere,
seed of silence. ”
Dreaming is above us, silence below, in stones.
“Sky, earth, and sea are contained in stone,” he said, “and on the scales of the universal balance, it is the measuring unit of silence.”)
” —Edmond Jabès, from Aely, in From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabès ReaderEDMOND JABÈS Aely