Forgotten Manuscript

Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain. The perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and allowing it to exist in a state of permanent possibility, or, as he says, 'The written word is also capable of waiting for the next opportunity to appear and to continue to reveal itself by and for itself.' This same notebook is also the jumping off point for this essay, which considers the dimensions of the act of writing (legibility, annotation, facsimile, inscription, typewriter versus word processor versus pen) as a way of thinking, as a record of relative degrees of permanence, and as a performance.