Thomas The Obscure (10 page)

2.      
The Neoplatonists and the Middle Ages may have forgotten that this was the case, but this quasi-raythic formulation of our intellectual history still retains its basic truth.

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This is, however, not impossible. Lydia Davis corresponded with Blanchot regarding her beautiful translation of
L\Arret de mort
(Station Hill Press, 1978). She has told me that—not surprisingly—he insisted on the importance of her contribution and on the fact that
Death Sentence
was, finally, her book.