hey padcha... here is a quote from glissant article i was reading today for you.

What might writing mean today? It is not just writing histories to amuse or move people; it may be, above all, a matter of looking for the frail but trustworthy link between the wild diversity of the world and the balance and knowledge that we desire to have. . . . They [writers] should be sensitive to the totality of the world and to everything we owe to modernity: the knowledge of other civilizations that enriches our own; the techniques of orality that are making their way into writing; the knowledge of foreign languages, which bends and changes our ways of using our native language.
--Edouard Glissant, "The Unforeseeable Diversity of the World" from Beyond Dichotomies: Histories, Cultures, and the Challenge of Globalization