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... becomes flesh . These chapters are a wheel of alternative postures , of fleshly spaces . Visionary space is the child born of our cohabitation with the language on the page . When we shape our bodies to the rhythm of literature , the ...
... becomes flesh . These chapters are a wheel of alternative postures , of fleshly spaces . Visionary space is the child born of our cohabitation with the language on the page . When we shape our bodies to the rhythm of literature , the ...
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... becomes an actor who stages a universe in the theater of his flesh . A book's finite language could be endlessly elaborated , but a vision frees us from the need or desire to say the words . Language becomes revelation by reso- nating ...
... becomes an actor who stages a universe in the theater of his flesh . A book's finite language could be endlessly elaborated , but a vision frees us from the need or desire to say the words . Language becomes revelation by reso- nating ...
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... becomes flesh . These chapters are a wheel of alternative postures , of fleshly spaces . Visionary space is the child born of our cohabitation with the language on the page . When we shape our bodies to the rhythm of literature , the ...
... becomes flesh . These chapters are a wheel of alternative postures , of fleshly spaces . Visionary space is the child born of our cohabitation with the language on the page . When we shape our bodies to the rhythm of literature , the ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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