To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Political liberation of sexuality: this is a double transgression, of politics
by the sexual, and conversely. But this is nothing at all: let us now
imagine reintroducing into the politico-sexual field thus discovered,
recognized, traversed, and liberated . . . a touch of sentimentality: would
that not be the ultimate transgression? For, after all, that would be love:
which would return: but in another place.

Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes

Women whirling in be-ing shift the center of gravity.

Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology

The writing of Nicole Brossard lies at a unique historical and
cultural juncture between a literature of modernity that has con-
sciously broken with the past and an experimental women's writing
that has added a gender specificity and an unavoidably political
dimension to some of the more radical practices of textual modernity
in Quebec. The link between Brossard's work and modernity has
been the subject of much recent critical commentary. Among Que-
bec intellectuals (whether feminists or not), Brossard and modern-
ité--that "radical impulse" ¹ to sever with tradition and become
résolument moderne--have often been uttered in the same breath.
Brossard herself has distinguished between Rimbaud's etiquette, "Il
faut être absolument moderne" ("One must be absolutely modern"),
which she reads as the urgent modernist necessity to risk all, includ-

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