"Facts are perceptions of surfaces."
-- Susan Howe

"You cannot describe a house on fire until the actual event takes place. Perhaps there will be no fire. Either you'll have to deny the description as a fiction, or burn the house in accordance with the script."
-- Dziga Vertov

You cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.
-- Emily Dickinson