Joshua Clover was one of the - if not *the* - most important mentors I've ever had. He was also a comrade & loyal friend. I've learned so much from & with him over the years, I don't even know where to start. But this part of an email he sent me shortly after my first arrest (which he was there for) - I think about it a lot - more than anything b/c there is something really beautiful about it: "If we are reaching into history, I am still very fond of the very simple formula, 'the truth is the whole.' That's Hegel. Of course I never will know the whole (which I admit makes me sad; that sadness is my hubris), but it remains very uncertain that because the whole is unknowable, one shouldn't try. 'The whole' is a kind of horizon, or limit. I am not so into giving up in the face of its great distance from us. I swim in that direction."