I once read that the Mayans had a word for wisdom that meant „the little flash,” and mystics often talk about the flash of insight or illumination. The critic George Steiner once wrote about the flash of insight conveyed by the literary fragment (…) and referred to both „its lightning certitude of immediacy and the necessary incompletion of such immediacy,” and highlighted its importance to the process of critical insight.
– Susan Sontag, The Complete Rolling Stone interview