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Bearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that we may
See and remark, and say, Whose?” 14 (6: 1-10)
And Plato would behold:
“Sit below the long needles of the resonant pine
As its branches shudder in the western winds.
A shepherd’s piping by the loquacious river
Will lay heavy sleep on your spellbound eyelids.”15
(Fragment 454)
Since Borges once said that “in the language of humans, there is no proposition that does not imply the entire universe...to say “the jaguar” is to say all the jaguars that engendered it, the deer and turtles it has devoured, the grass that fed the deer, the earth that was mother to the grass, the sky that gave light to the earth...” and that “in the language of a god every word would speak that infinite concatenation of events...not linearly but instantaneously”16 then my universe is a multiverse of univocity where
the Forms morph
14 Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Song of Myself. 6. Philadelphia, USA: David McKay. 1900. 35.
15 Barnstone, Willis. Greek Lyric Poetry. New York, USA: Shocken Books. 1972. 178.
16 Borges, Jorge L. Collected Fictions. The Writing of the Gods. New York, NY: Viking Penguin Group. 1998. 250.
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