NICHOLAS THURSTON Historia Abscondita An Index of Joy

Compiled from Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘The Gay Science’ Translated by Walter Kaufmann

PUBLISHED IN 2007 BY InformationasMaterial

HISTORIA ABSCONDITA1

(An Index of Joy)

BY Nicholas Thurston

FIRST EDITION

YORK 2007 1 Concealed, secret, or unknown history. What good is a book AN INDEX OF JOY

Every great human being exerts a retroactive force: for his sake all of history is placed in the balance again, and a thousand secrets of the past crawl out of their hiding places—into his sunshine. There is no way of telling what may yet become part of history. Perhaps the past is still essentially undiscovered! So many retroactive forces are still needed!

altruism, Americans, Abbruch, Zerstörung, Untergang, amor fati, Umsturz, amor intellectualis dei, accidens, amour-plaisir, accidents, amour-vanité, actions, anaesthetics, effect of, anarchists, actors, Andrade, E. N. daC., animals, mercy for, animals adaptability, and men, Aeschylus, aesthetics, anthem, German national, affirmation and renunciation, anthropomorphisms, age, anti-idealism, anti-Semitism, of founda- tions, Antony, Mark, agreement, law of, An-und Für-sich’s, air, virile, aphorisms, Ajax, Apollinian art, albatross, Apollo, Albigensian Crusade, appearance, Alcaeus, good will to, alcohol, applause, Alfieri, Count Vittorio, appropriation, Allah, Arabia, alpha and omega, Ararat,

1 2 inde x

Archilochus, Bahnsen, Julius, architects, social, Baldwin, James Mark, architecture, Barnes, Hazel, Ariston of Chios, Bastille, Aristotle, Batz, Philipp, Armida, Baubo, Armut des Reichen, Baumgarten, Eduard, Arnaut, Daniel, Bayreuth, art, beauty and ugliness,

Beethoven, Ludwig van, and nature, Apollinian, Dionysian, being, in Schopenhauer, Greek, monological, and becoming, l’art pour l’art, bekannt and erkannt, Artbegriffe, belief in unbelief, artists, believers, Bellini, Vincenzo, Benares, benefactors, art for artists only, benevolence, German, Bernoulli, Carl Albrecht, asceticism, Beroaldo, Filippo, Asclepius, Bertran de Born, Asians, best, everything turning out for Assaua, the, atavisms, of a people and its Beweis, mores, Beyle, Henri, atheism, scientific, Bible (see also Old Testament and Athenians, New Testament), St. Augustine, King James, Luther’s Augustus, Emperor, translation of, Ausserordentliche, das, Binion, Rudolph, authors, autonomy, Bismarck, Otto von,

avarice, body, Avesta, bold, being, away, looking, books, Nietzsche’s, boredom, born, late, Bosheit, Babylonian exile, bourgeois envy of nobility, bad, brevity, inde x 3

Brinton, Crane, Brutus, Buddha, Buddhism, church, concept of the, Cinna, Burckhardt, cities, Butler, Samuel, civilization, present day, class, lower, spiritual middle, Claude Lorraine, cleanliness, intellectual, Caesar, Cagliostro, cogito, Callimachus, colonialism, cannibalism, Columbus, Carlyle, Thomas, Catholicism, comfortableness, contempt for, Cato, religion of, Caucasus, commanding, cause and effect, communication, capacity and need for, causes, serving, community, preservation of, celibacy, sense of, Cerberus, companies, bubble, certainty, comprehension, desire for, conceptual frameworks, alternate,

Chamfort, Sébastien Roch Nicolas, Condillac, Etienne de, confession, chance, conscience, change, capacity for, chaos, bad, character, European, magnificent, good, chauvinism, cheerfulness, intellectual, chemistry, party, childlikeness, scientific, children, consciousness, China, chinoiserie, conservatives, Christianity, contemplative nature, contempt, for man,

contradiction, 4 inde x

convalescence, deeds, good, convictions, defeat, fear of, ultimate, Delphi, Corneille, Pierre, Delphinorum, in usum, corruption, democracy, courage, demon, deprivations that philosophize,

court, culture, style, and language Descartes, René, of, description, courtesy, destruction, desire for, creating oneself, determinism, creative power, development, crimen laesae majestatis divinae, dialectic, diet, criticism, dignity, human, Cromwell, Oliver, dignity and vulgarity, crowd, Dionysian perspective, cruelty, and Dionysus, malice, Dionysus Dithyrambs, cults, orgiastic, diplomats, culture, discipleship, cultures, barbarian and higher, disciplina voluntatis, industrial and military, dissatisfaction, feminine and mas- culine types of, distress,

Dallas, E.S., dogma, Damon, dreams, dance, duties, unconditional, duty, Dante Alighieri, Darwin, Charles, Darwinism, Dasein, eagle, Dauphin, Echo, dawn, Eckhart, Master, day, ordering the, education, death, effectiveness, perspective of, egoism, Schopenhauer’s view of, will to, electricity, atmospheric, “decay, moral,” Eleatics, deception, eloquence, de-deification of nature and of the embarrassment, world, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, inde x 5

Empedocles, exhaustion, endings, existence, enemies, open, secret, worthy, enlightenment, as an aesthetic phenomenon, en soi, discontent with, entrepreneurs, justification of, purpose of, Entsagende, der, struggle for, unin- Entstehung, terpreted, value of, envy, Epictetus, existentialism, German, Epicureans, Epicurus, expedience, experience, and reading, epistemology, experiences, religious and mystical, equality, Erasmus, Desiderius, experiment, life as, Erkennen, experimentalism, Nietzsche’s, Erleichterung, Eros, experts, errors, metaphysical, neces- explanation, sary, useful or basic, explanations, mystical, esprit, French, faith, Southern, essence, est res magna tacere, and cruelty, ethics, Nietzsche’s, in eternal satisfaction, in ethos, oneself, role faith, etymology, Europe, Europeans, faithfulness, Falschmünzerei, fame, famous men,

Southern, familiarity and knowledge,

European, good, fanaticism, fascists (see also Nazis), events, interpreting and arranging, fatalism, evil (see also good and evil), fate, love of, father, son, grandfather, exception and the rule, the, 6 inde x

fatherland, function, fulfilling a, Faust, future, fear, of oneself, for children of the, ourselves, instinct of, future of man, of senses, fear, age of, fearlessness, Fehlschluss, Fehlschuss, Feindin, feminine character and contempla- gai saber, tive type, gaia sciensa, fermata, garrulousness of writers, Fernste, Gast, Peter, ferocia animi, festivals, art of, gay, Feuerbach, Ludwig, Gay Liberation Front, Fischer, Walther, gay science, fit secundum regulam, Flaubert, Gustave, Foissac, Pierre, gaya scienza, folly, pleasure in, Geist Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, Geistes, Vierschrötigen des, geistigen Arbeit, alle Menschen fool, the, der, footbridge, Geistlosigkeit, forgetting, Gemeinschaft, Förster, Bernhard, generations, conservative, Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth, genius, Schopenhauer’s view of, foundations, age of, Genoa, Frauen, See also women. German Empire, Frauenstädt, Julius, German language, Frauenzimmer, Germans, freedom,

above things, Germans and Jews, of thought, spiritual un-, of the will, Gesellschaft, freedom of great souls, Gewissen, freedom, political, Freigeisterei, Gide, André, Freud, Sigmund, Gil Blas, Gilman, William H., Friedrich III, Glauben, friendship, Gluck, Christoph Willibald, goals, great, inde x 7

God, Greek taste, Grillen, growth, conditions of, Gründerjahre; Gründungen, Zeita- lter der, guilds, childlikeness of, Christian, guilt, conditions for, gurus, Indian, death of,

Dionysian, elect of, habits, shadow of, unknown, Hades, Hafiz, Shams ud-din Mohammed, “God is dead” movement, gods, Hagenbach, Eduard, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Halbes, etwas, Hamlet, Hanswurst, happiness, gold rush, good, the general, the new, good and bad, good and evil, Chinese, beyond, Hartmann, Eduard von, hatred, of man, “good man”, Hautlichkeit, goodnaturedness, health, Gospels, a normal health, Graces, the great, Graeculus histrio, heathen, grammar, Hebrew, gratitude, of hedonism, a convalescent, triumphant, Hegel, G.W.F., gravity, speci- Heidegger, Martin, fic, Heine, Heinrich, great-souled man, freedom of, Heiterkeit, greatness, Helvetius, and disturbance, and Heraclitus, lack of compassion, herd, herd men, Greeks, 8 inde x

heresy, hunger (see superabundance and hero, hunger) Hürlimann, Martin, Herrinnen der Herren, hurting others, Herrnhut, hypertrophy of a single viewpoint, Herrschafts-Gebilde, Herzens-Austausch, allgemeinen blumichten, Hesse, Hermann, hic niger est, idea, Hingabe, Hingebung, idealists, Hintergründe, Hinzu-lügner, ideas, modern, historia abscondita, idiot, historical sense, of an idolaters, state, age, of this age, ignorance, history, imitation, “immoralism,” Nietzsche’s,

homeless, immortality, Homer, happiness of, imperative, categorical, homosexuality, honesty, imperfection in poetry, the attrac- tion of, German, imperium Romanum, honor, impulses, human, of God, in hatred, “Incipit tragoedia,” Horace, Indian, American, houses, indignation, anarchism of, Hubbard, Stanley, individual, human beings, active, badly turned out, best, and society, Scho- communication among, fu- penhauer’s denial of the, ture, good, great, individuation, principle of, higher, preparatory, Individuum, verurteilt zum, rare, well industriousness, turned out, who create inertia, themselves, inference, backward, humaneness, humanity, ancient, inferences, logical, love of, infinity, Hume, David, influence, inde x 9 insight, tragic, Kant, Immanuel, instinct, com- mon, herd, Keller, Gottfried, of weakness, Kleinstaaterei, intelligere, Knecht, Josef, interpretation, knowledge, intoxication, Iphigenia, iron, wooden, Islam,

and appearance, Epicurean bent for, love of, James, William, men of, origin of, Januarius, Sanctus, Jeder ist sich selber der Fernste, Kraft, jedes Handwerk zieht krumm,

Jehova, Laborde-Millaà, A., Jeremiah, Lamarck, Chevalier de, Jesus, Landor, Walter Savage, Jews, language, language, private, laughing at oneself, laughter, journalism, joy, law, natural, joylessness, laziness, joyous science, Leibniz, G. W., judgements, and judges, non-arbitrary Leidensstrasse, character of, leisure, men of, judgements, aesthetic, Leo X, Pope, moral, value, Leopardi, Giacomo, Le Sage, Alain René, Julius Caesar, lèse majesté, justice, letter writing, letters, man of, leveling, justification of our lives, liberality, liberation,

Liberation, Wars of, Kaiser Wilhelm II, liberty, see freedom 10 inde x

life, Malthus, Thomas Robert, man, animal without animal com- mon sense, as a good natured animal, as a mis- trustful animal, as a reverent animal, as a social animal, conditions of, as a world-negating prin- discontent with, funda- ciple, as most endangered mental instinct of, interpre- animal, as tame animal, tations of, observing, hatred of, nature promoting the faith in, of, present day, south- styles, will to, ern suspicion of, light and flame, man, a big, lion, man, last, Literat, Manfred, literature, Manichaeism, Nietzsche’s opposi- litteris et artibus, tion to, live dangerously, Mann, Thomas, see also courage manners, bad, noble, logic, marriage, Martial, Louis XIV, martyrdom, love, martyrs, Marx, Karl, Marxists, mother, of fate, masks (see also role and actors), of humanity, sexual, masquerade, intellectual, Lucian, Luke, masses, Lust, mastery, Luther, Martin, materialism, mathemematics, Matthew, lyrical sentiments, Maximillian, Emperor, Mazzini, Giuseppe, mechanisms, objectifying, mechanists, Machiavellism, mediators, Machtgelüst, melancholy, madman, parable of the, melody, madness, melos, Mensch, missratener, magnanimity, Menschen, Mainländer, Philipp, Menschen, die höheren, inde x 11 um unter Menschen, mit Menschen instinctive, motives of “umzugehen,” versus principle of, private, Menschenfreundlichkeit, of mores, Menschen-Unverstand, of tradition, Menschenverstand, gesunder, value of a, mentiri, morals, scientific study of, of Mephistopheles, your society, preachers of, mercy, Mérimée, Prosper, Moravian brotherhood, metaphysics, mores, see morality of Moses, method, Nietzsche’s, motherly human type, metropolitanism, motives, supposed and Middle Ages, actual, Milton, John, Murat, Joachim, Minerva, music, Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de, miracles, German, misanthropy, misery, Muslim, mistral, mistrust, mob, nachmachen, modesty, Nächste, Mohammed, nakedness, Mohammed ibn Abd ul-Wahhab, names and words, monarchs, rights of, Napoleon, monogamy, monotheism, narcotica history of, Montaigne, Michael Eyquem de, nationalism, German,

Montesquieu, Baron de, naturalism, Montinari, Mazzino, naturalisme, moods, higher, nature, moral action, moralities, age of, founders of, and morality, ethical systems, art and, de-deification of, (see de-deifica- tion); human, instrumental,

natures, contemplative, noble and common, 12 inde x

nausea, Genealogy of Morals,

Human, All too Human, Nazis (see also fascists), Idyllen necessity, lack of, aus Messina, Nietzsche moral, of new contra Wagner, orders, Thus need, Spoke Zarathustra, for the familiar, needful, what is, negation, of the world, neighbor, Twilight of the Idols, Nero, New Testament, Newton, Isaac, nicht teilen, nicht mitteilen, The Wanderer and his Shadow, The Will to Nietzsche, Friedrich: letters cited Power, (See Burckhardt, Gast, Over- beck, Rée, Rohde, Salis) life, Nietzscheans, gentle and tough,

nihilism,

pictures of, Nirvana, possibilities of misunderstand- nobility, ing,

works: The Antichrist, non ridere, non lugere, neque de- testari sed intelligere!, Beyond Good and Not ist nötig, Evil, noumena, nutrition, philosophy of,

The Birth of Tragedy, objectivity in art, The obscurantism, Case of Wagner, obstinacy, The Dawn, occupation, Ecce Homo, Odysseus, Old Testament, open-heartedness, opera, inde x 13 opiates (see also poppy), Paul, Saint, peace, opinions, political, prevalent, penal code, people, associating with, oracles, ordentlich, people, common, order, lack of, “edu- organic, the, cated,” posthumous, Orient, originality, perception, sense (see also sense Orpheus, impressions), Orphic enthusiasts, Periclean age, others, need for, reproach- Perillus, ing, punishing, improving, personality, otium, perspectivism, over-, pessimism, Overbeck, Franz, Dionysian, overman, Petersburg, nihilism à la, Pfeiffer, Ernst, Phalaris’ bull, phenomena, paganism, phenomenalism, pain, Philetas, philological writings, Nietzsche’s, conclusions of, philology, pain bringers of humanity, philosophers, pais paizon, Parliamentarianism, Parmenides, parodia, incipit, Parsons, J.E., English-speaking, parties, political, German, Partridge, Eric, passion, philosophical systems, Nietzsche’s critique of, philosophies, pessimistic, and rationality, of the philosophy, spirit, reversal of, suppres- as sion of, unreason of, art of transfiguration, as past periods, returning to, luxury, as misunderstand- ing of the body, history of, pastors, country, needing philosophy, pathos, of language, re- patriotism, lation of health and, 14 inde x

physician, philosophical, poverty, physicists and creators, power, physics, physiological make-up, Diony- and soul, sian, the will to, physis, ultimate, Pindar, praise, pious, prayer, Piper, Otto A., pre-Socratic philosophers, pity, pride, of the spirit, as the virtue of prostitutes, and in con- fear, Schopenhauer’s sciousness, view of, priest, Christian, placitum, priestly type, Plato, principium individuationis, problems, personal and impersonal play, relationships to, pleasure, profundity, spiritual, and Prometheus, displeasure, promoterism, period of, Plebeians, proof, faith in a, Plutarch, Propertius, Podach, Erich, prophets, Hebrew, poets and poetry, proprium and ipsissimum,

prose, Greek tragic, Protestantism, politeness, Provence, politicians, providence, personal, politics, prudence and folly, Prussian officers, polydextrous man of letters, psychologicae, elegantiae,

polytheism, psychology, polytropoi, Pompeii, psychology, moral, poor, poverty of the, riches of punishment, purpose of, the, purpose, absence of, poppy, of existence, Portofino, Pythagoras, positivists, Pythagoreans, possessions, posthumous, Pound, Ezra, quando etiam sapientibus gloriae inde x 15

cupido novissima exuitur, rerum concordia discors, resentment, Quixote, Don, ressentiment, retribution, Reuchlin, Johann, race, higher, revenge, race prejudice, Chinese, will to, Racine, Jean Baptiste, reverence, racism, German, Revolution, French, raison, rhythm, rank, laws of the order of, rich and the idle, the, rich- ness, Raphael, rich, poverty of the, rationality, and passion, Richard III, readers, riddles, Realdialektik, rights, equal, realists, sovereign, reality, Rilke, Rainer Maria, objective, Robert, Paul, Realpolitik, Rochefoucauld, Francois de La, reason, Rohde, Erwin, role, social (see also masks), divine, rebellion, peasant, Romans, ancient, recitativo secco, recurrence, eternal, romanticism, romantic pessi- mism, redemption, Romeo, Rée, Paul, Roscoe, William, Reeve, Henry, Rossini Gioacchino, reflection, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Reformation, Rubens, Peter Paul, religion, sacrifice, religions, age of, sage, the, founders of, Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, origin of, remorse, herd, saints, Renaissance, Sais, image of, renunciation and affirmation, Salis, Meta von, Salomé, Lou, reputation, bad, 16 inde x

San Marco, self-limitation, Sartre, Jean-Paul, self-mastery, saturnalia, self-observation, Savalan, Mt., self-preservation, schadenfroh, self-questioning, Schiller, Friedrich, self-reliance, Schlechta, Karl, self-sacrifice, Schleiermacher, Friedrich, self-satisfaction, scholars, self-sufficiency, pre-history of, self-transformation, selfishness, Schopenhauer, Arthur, selflessness, Seneca, sense, animal common, sense, common, Schwergewicht, das grösste, sense impressions (see also percep- Schwermut, tion, sense), science, senses, overpowerful, sensualists, sentiment, luxury of, Septuagint, seriousness, taking seriously, aim of, and goals of action, modern, tyranny serpent, of, servility, refined, scientists, natural, shadow of God, secrets, Shakespeare, William, sects, religious, Sein, shame, self-alienation, Siberia, self-confidence, unconditional, sicher, sick thinkers, self-consciousness, sickness, self-contempt, self-control, sie “sich geben,” selbst noch, wenn sie—sich geben, self-deception, Siegfried, self-denial, Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph, self-despisers, Sils Maria, self-determination, sin, self-dissatisfaction, sit venia verbo, self-forgetfulness, skepsis, of women, self-interest, skepticism, self-knowledge, of women, moral, inde x 17 slaves, slavery, socialism, French utopian, socialists, society, best, actors of corruption in, free, the, enemies of the, industrial, free, Socrates, greatest, plebeianism an artistic, of the, prostitution of the, solitude, spirituality, power of, as a self-defense, state, modern, solitude, argument of growing, Stendhal, solitudes, seven, Stifter, Adalbert, songs, Stoics, Stoicism, soothsayer, Sophocles, Stone, Lawrence, soul, strength and weakness,

strength, overfull of, proof German, of, independence of the, structure of The Gay Science, salvation of the, virtue is the health of students, the, stupidity, virtuous, souls, beautiful, style, simplicity of, giving souverains rangent aux parvenus, style to one’s character, les, sovereignty, subject-object opposition, Soviet Union, sublimieren, specialists, submission, species, concepts, genius sub specie aeterni, of the, preservation of the, sub specie speciei, spectators, success and failure, speeches, beautiful, suchen, versuchen, Versuch, Ver- Spencer, Herbert, suchung, etc., Spengler, Oswald, suffering, Spiller, Robert E., craving for, will to Spinoza, Baruch, inflict, suicide, sum, ergo cogito; cogito, ergo sum, spirit, (see also conscience intellec- tual, superabundance and hunger, 18 inde x

superficiality, tragedy, supermen, age of, Greek, supernaturalism, translations, superstition, and rhythmic translations of The Gay Science, speech, survival, tribes, savage, suspicion, Tribschen, the great, troubadours, suum cuique, truth,

Tacitus, Tasso, love of, re- taste, vealed, tyranny of, will courtly, general, to, German, good and bad, truthfulness, Nietzsche’s, Turenne Vicomte de, tempo, in development of tyrants, peoples, Teplitz, Terpander, über-, terror, logic of, Übergewicht, Teutons, Übermensch, theater, Übermut, Theocritus, Überreichtum, theology, Christian, Überschuss, thing in itself, Überwelt, Uhland, Ludwig, things, human relation to, Ulfilas, thinkers, unconscious, unities, Aristotelian, great, universe, thinking, serious (see gravity) university atmosphere, thou shalt, unreason, human, thoughts, under-, Tiberius, undermen, Tibertans, underprivileged, the, timeliness, un-, understanding, Un-Scheinbaren, Timon of Athens, Untergang, title of The Gay Science, Untermensch, Tocqueville, Alexis de, Unterwelt, tolerance, Urmi, Lake, Tönnies, Ferdinand, Ursprung, torture, utilitarianism, trade, and nobility, utility, social or herd, inde x 19 utility for life, Voltaire, Voltairian, Schopenhauer as a, vormachen, Vademecum, Vadetecum, Vorstellungen, values, Voss, J.H., vulgarity, revaluation of, Van Gogh, Vincent, vanity, wachsen and wechseln, Vaterländerei, Wagner, Cosima, Venice, Wagner, Richard, Verhältnis zur, im, verité vraie, la, Verwandelung, Vesuvius, Wahhabis, via dolorosa, Walther von der Vogelweide, Victorian era, war, victory, victors, classical age of, religious, scientific, vieldeutig, Vielgeisterei, War is the father of all good things, vielgewandten, vielgewendeten, wax in one’s ears, vielverschlagenen, weakness, instinct of, vierschrötigen, Weber, Max, virginity, Weiber, virility, weight, the greatest, virtues, well-being, human, superhuman in- human, Welt, eine verallgemeinerte, eine growth of, of a right vergemeinerte, reader, poor, visible and whore, invisible, Wilhelm I, vis contemplativa, Wilhelm II, vis creativa, Will, One, vis inertiae, will, the, Vishnu, vita contemplativa, discipline of the, vita, In media, of one who suffers, to death, vita religiosa, to immortalize, vitality, Nietzsche’s, to inflict suffering, to vivat comoedia, power (see power) vogelfrei, will, free, volcanoes, Volk, will, unfree, 20 inde x

William IX, Court of Poitiers, Worms, Diet of, Williams, Wallace E., writing and writers, willing in Schopenhauer,

wine, wisdom for the common people, Wissenschaft, Xerxes, witchcraft, Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Wohlseins und Wohlwollens,

women, Yes-saying, youths,

Zarathustra, work, and boredom, Zelter, Karl Friedrich, workers, Zeno, world, affirming another, man Zeus, and, scientific interpretation Zoroaster (see Zarathustra) of the, surface- and sign-, Zukünftiger, Zukunftsmusikant, that does not even carry us beyond all books? © 2007 Nicholas Thurston This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Licence, a copy of which is available for viewing at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/2.5

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“These word lists stand as signposts to an intellectual terrain recoverable only speculatively, through indexical trace. Nietzsche the author is long vanished from this text, which is based upon a posthumous translation of The Gay Science, and the loss of history that is a central theme of that book becomes enacted in this Index of Joy. All we have is what is left behind… A conceptual work that enacts its polemical operations through a deceptively simple device, Nicholas Thurston’s Historia Abscondita uses visual and material references to call forth the associative process through which the impossible task of recovery is provoked.” —Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia

Historia Abscondita selects its title, format and purpose from amongst Friedrich Nietzsche’s “most personal of all books”, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. (“la gaya scienza”). Without a word of his own, Thurston dances with Nietzsche to the song of his aphorisms, re-reading possibility into his classic challenges through a subtle conceptual appropriation. The index of Walter Kaufmann’s canonical English translation provides a site and concealed syntax that Thurston opens anew. The past, present and future influences, on and of Nietzsche, become conceptually unbound. This book allows the new relations of alphabetised coincidence that emerge to remain joyously unstable.

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