"Exorcism, a reaction in force, with a battering ram, is the true poem of the prisoner.
"In the very space of suffering and obsession you introduce such exaltation, such magnificent violence, welded to the hammering of words, that evil is progressively dissolved, replaced by an airy demonic sphere--a marvellous state."
Henri Michaux, from 'Ordeals, Exorcisms'
Collected in Darkness Moves, translated by David Ball
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