Thursday, June 07, 2007

For the new to be received, it must look old...

For the new to be received, it must look old;

The analogue is a man dressed in a suit:
He receives the hand of the bride,
He kisses her fingers. The ritual
Is always identical, always the same still reel --
But the habit of various names and the play of chance
Renews itself in this revelation,
Under whom the glimmer of haecceity portends;

The individual looks towards the difference of signs.

Undress: you are the same skin
Embodied in the novelty of generation,
Which is the function of a generation
Put upon itself (veils of your fathers
And your fathers' fathers).

This is re-arrangement; all the parts
Have been reformed to known again
In their various forms:

Variation of the various in forms
Informs.

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