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Quote from Christa Wolf, Conditions of a Narrative, in Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, translated from the German by Jan van Heurck: I want to set a fabric before you. It is an aesthetic structure, and as such it would lie at the centre of my poetics if I had one. But this fabric which I want to display to you now did not turn out completely tidy, is not surveyable at one glance. Many of its motifs are not followed up, many of its threads are tangled. There are wefts which stand out like foreign bodies, repetitions, material that has not been worked out to its conclusion. This is not always intentional; I myself had first to work to master the material, and I make you witness of this work process.