Standing on a knife’s edge is to write words that cut. We can enter such spaces by witnessing and encountering the COVID 19 pandemic’s devastating impacts. The suffering that ensues may lead to an emptiness that feels as if words have abandoned us. These unspoken words may build up inside, and eventually explode like a full dam, it’s power, bursting a hole in the fabric of our lives. The release can be experienced as a loss that becomes an opening. Riding this intense wave of affect to wherever it takes us, is to write as inquiry within a pandemic.

中文翻译：

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在大流行期间作为询问写作

站在刀口上是要写出切开的单词。我们可以通过目睹并遇到COVID 19大流行的毁灭性影响进入此类空间。随之而来的苦难可能导致空虚，仿佛言语已经抛弃了我们。这些不言而喻的话语可能会在里面积累，并最终像一堵大坝一样爆炸，它的力量在我们的生活结构中凿出一个洞。释放可以作为损失经历，成为空缺。将这种强烈的情感浪潮带到我们所需要的任何地方，都是在大流行中写成询问。