Jan 18, 2019
[As W. B. observes] in comparing mechanized labor to gambling, in any repetitive act, knowledge and experience are useless, since one can learn nothing from one throw of the dice or one turn of the machine to the next.
I tried to locate the original fragment, unsuccessfully; thus, I say this allegedly belongs to W. Benjamin, quoted within the introduction to the American edition of Blanchot's "Step Not Beyond"; tr. Lycette Nelson, 1992