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31.12 Conceived as something inscribed upon something else, the lyric consists of an accident (a nonrecurrent narrative, an anecdote) inscribed upon an archetype. Neither tern is annihilable without the loss of the nature on the whole. Historical styles tend to emphasize one tern or the other. The style which loses the difference is called apocalyptic.

43.2 Take the shell (20). The gastropod, dead, armored, fascinating, a closed book, an interior self (you can't see in), utters the oceanic version of the Orphic song. It is like a book. When is a book really open? Never.

"42.4 The mother tongue is, roughly, the language of the situation into which we are thrown (that is to say, the situation in which we are against our will, or whether we will or no, or, at any rate, before we have willed). It is the language of fate, hence the language of the novel-- the realm of the impeded will."

:( "41.1 The date of my death has not yet occurred in the calendar of past days. How do I know? Perhaps I have forgotten my death. But something would have reminded me."

and then I tried to type up much of Aperture and Closure. and the upload did not take :(

back to it. I will not type 38. Myth up in its entirety. I will not type 38. Myth up in its entirety. I will not.

34.5 Consciousness is in search of (in a restless way) an object as complex and mysterious as the object of the same order of mysteriousness as the body. The poem comes in the way of this restlessness and is one of its occasions of repose (the question in the answer, the outcry in the echo).

28.6 The vortex in the poem is the horizon of outlook of the blind man whose eyes have been transformed: one eye has become a mirror, the other an abyss. 28.7 The speaker in the poem is the man who has usurped the right of the first night in which he was conceived. hence the beauty, the shining of the face.

22.10 The speaker of the poem is in the presence of the fathers. 22.11 Perhaps, they do not know him.