Something was started in the first three verses of Ezekiel 3: “ Then He said to me, “Son of man , eat what you find ; eat this scroll , and go , speak to the house of Israel .”/ So I opened my mouth , and He fed me this scroll ./ And He said to me, “Son of man , feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth . “ The theme of eating the scroll, the book, the document derives, in the West, from the prophets. This is a radical reworking of the sensual spell of the book, with its obsessive visuality, into that most intimate of bodily moments, eating. The line: “Then I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth” is, to me, peculiarly moving. The scroll, the book, the screen on which I type these words, are all very dry. If they were not arid, they would not serve as platforms for letters. But the notion that the scroll’s dryness, which would make it repulsive, turns to some
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