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This is how I read this book:

there are three things that strike fear: the first, the second, and the third.

The first is called the provoked emptiness, the second is called the continued emptiness, and the third is likewise called the glimpsed emptiness.

Now we know that Emptiness does not depend on Nothingness.

There are, then, three things that strike fear.

The first is mutation. No one knows what a human is. The limits of the human species are consequently unknown. They can, however, be felt. The mutant is extra-ordinary, bearing with it a new ordinary. This book is a process of mutants, physically perfect. It is a terrible process. It is advisable to fear this book.

There are, as I have said, three things that strike fear.

The second is Tradition, according to the spirit that moves where it breathes.

We all believe we know what Time is, but we suspect, with reason, that only Power knows what Time is: Tradition according to the Weft of Existence. This book is the history of Tradition, according to the spirit of the Remaining Life. Yet another reason for us not to take it seriously.

There are, I say for the last time, three things that strike fear.

The third is a bodywriting. Only those who pass through there understand what it is. And that it is of interest to no one.

Speaking and negotiating, producing and exploring, construct, in effect, the happenings of Power. Writing accompanies the density of the Remaining Life, of the Body’s Other Form, which, I tell you here is: Landscape.

Writing glimpses, it cannot be used to confine. Writing, as in this book, fatally brings Power to the loss of memory.

And who knows what a Body With A Hundred Absent Memories of Landscape is.

Who can bear Emptiness?

Perhaps No One, not even a Book.

A. Borges

Jodoigne, January 4, 1977