Roussel would claim that his writing was purely interior, that none of it drew on observation:
"Now from all these travels I never took anything for my books. It seems to me that this is worth mentioning since it clearly shows how much imagination accounts for everything in my work."
(in How I Wrote Certain of My Books (Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres) 14, cited in David Wills, Prosthesis, 263-4. Wills follows Foucault in being skeptical of this claim though.)
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