Az eltűnés lassúsága
The Sluggishness of Disappearance

Summary/Abstract: Somebody lies in a dark corner full of books. He seems to lie asleep, but he is awake. He is muttering and whispering alone. Again and again, he turns on the light to jot down something in a note-book. He is writing a poem, which is an exercise of his strangeness, keeping on waiting for the next impulse surrounded by boredom. There is nothing but conditions of the language and dependences on it, since the poet does not possess his own language. In fact, he cannot regard the existence of his mother tongue as a natural capacity. For him, the main condition of writing is that he has to lose the language mediating between him and the others. And he does not have his own voice, either. For his speech, he has to use existing forms, difficulties, rules, and styles. But all this is not enough: the poem is much more than speaking in a literary style. It is this 'much more' that makes the difference: a need, a hole in the present in which all the languages are getting lost. This is the moment of the catastrophe. It does not have a technique. But there is humor in it.

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