“It is important to look up to a model who has a rich, turbulent, unmistakable world, a world that he has smelled for himself, seen for himself, heard for himself, felt for himself, devised for himself. The authenticity of the model’s world is what the model gives one, is what most deeply impresses one. One lets oneself be overridden and overpowered by this world, and I cannot imagine a writer who was not controlled and paralyzed by someone else’s authenticity at an early time. In the humiliation of his rape, when he feels that he has nothing of his own, that he is not himself, does not know what he himself is, his concealed powers begin to stir. His personality articulates itself, arising from the resistance; wherever he liberated himself, there was something that liberated him.” Elias Canetti, The Conscience of Words, P. 38
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