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Page 11
... story spirals drunkenly inward and is saved from chaotic dissolution only by a reduction so deft and unforeseen that it traps us unaware . The last paragraph leaves us desperately lost in the initial metaphor - filled with the paradoxes ...
... story spirals drunkenly inward and is saved from chaotic dissolution only by a reduction so deft and unforeseen that it traps us unaware . The last paragraph leaves us desperately lost in the initial metaphor - filled with the paradoxes ...
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... story . " All solid bodies are the superimposition of an infinite number of planes , " reads the footnote to " The Library of Babel , " but we can comprehend such absolute density only in a book whose language is our breathing ...
... story . " All solid bodies are the superimposition of an infinite number of planes , " reads the footnote to " The Library of Babel , " but we can comprehend such absolute density only in a book whose language is our breathing ...
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... stories reveal the perceiver who lives , like the narrator of " The Immortal , " in a labyrinth of his own devising -arbitrary , mad , devious . In another story , a visiting Arabian king wanders in humiliation through an intricate ...
... stories reveal the perceiver who lives , like the narrator of " The Immortal , " in a labyrinth of his own devising -arbitrary , mad , devious . In another story , a visiting Arabian king wanders in humiliation through an intricate ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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