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In Sumer and in Egypt within the third millennium b. c. , speech was once spoken like an association of stars, an orderly procession of luminous beings, who counted poetry with sound, till conversing gave approach to a length that might no longer reconstitute, so she might sound as a wide masklike close-up and as an motionless determine in white at the mattress, who really absorbs area. you will paint stars on a black lead historical past, equivocal stars casting carpets of wish right here and there in the midst of an errand, which as much as then had proceeded within the nation of non-imploring urgency of a physique in diagonal, a picture of outreach or hailing. For me, it appeared love was once a non secular workout in actual shape, and the diagonal used to be flickers off an inferred line of solar lingering, as spring 28 synchronized with the double house of her wish and her wish for his or her presence to be hieratic, no longer fully expressive, a regular of grace within the hall of an afternoon, with narcissus. whether it is via counting that speech is attached to time, then crossing an inferred estuary of this dialog is a relaxation in track. 29 Alakanak Break-Up 1 to determine the temperature, she tosses a cup of water into the air, since it will evaporate sooner than it hits the floor. She is going outdoor and tosses a cup of alcohol into the air, after which she retains taking a look into the air. whilst her realization is discontinuous, this now not implies that she is inattentive. within the related method, they could degree the obvious, now, even supposing simple and temperature are vacuums her warmth sweeps throughout, even earlier than she has grew to become. while she turns, the ice she were status on is becoming foam and is set to float away. It rumbles because it is altering. She watches it recede, until eventually it's a slit of sunshine coming into the mind, as the mind is conserving itself opposed to the sunshine. 30 Here is the development horizon. you could specialise in a cone-shaped rock within the bay. you may make it better and nearer than the ice surrounding it, since you have the ability to coax the objective. This breaks up your payment in a stretch of infinity. then you definately tie a few string to a stick and toss it in entrance of you, as you're observing the rock. you then maintain drawing it again. occasionally the stick disappears in entrance of you, until eventually you draw it again. At those occasions the rock has develop into your self, donning tender bedclothes and with burned eyes. You stability 3 horizons. within the related method you press down on her shoulders and lightly push the individual into the floor, that's consistently altering within the present and at the tide. this can be the place they've got centred you. All that point you have been noting the course of snowdrifts and stalks bent within the south wind. however, a hurricane can distract your consciousness. Your realization turns into the rasping noise of a stick drawn around the fringe of a bowl at a celebration. It attracts consciousness tenuously out of your palms, the way in which your physique begins to rush within the wind. this is often the place they've got centred you, which will be afraid or with a purpose to re-create the road among your brain and your brain at the different facet of a blue crack within the ice, so that you can sit down dealing with one another, like ice floes folded up and chop up and piled up opposed to one another, and so that you understand sufficient to prevent once you lose your course.