The good is oft interred with their bones.
- Shakespeare
We will wonder what he may have kept of his unconditional right to secrecy
while at the same time burning with the desire to know, to make known, and to archive
the very things he concealed forever.
What did he conceal, even beyond the intention to conceal?
Beyond the intention to lie or to perjure?
We will always wonder what - sharing with compassion this archive fever -
what may have burned of his secret passions, of his correspondences, or of his life -
burned without him, without remains, and without knowledge
without the least symptom
and without even an ash
- Jacques Derrida (Archive Fever)