Ilsa

[T]he text is…what secures the guarantee of the written object, bringing together its safe guarding functions: on the one hand the stability and permanence of the inscription, designed to correct the fragility and impression of the memory, and on the other hand the legality of the letter, that incontrovertible and indelible trace, supposedly, of the meaning which the author has intentionally placed in his work: the text is a weapon against time, oblivion and trickery of speech, which is so easily taken back, altered, denied.