— marginalia

marginalia

— notes in the margin · several hands —

— yes ! see naturans

the labyrinth is not a place but a procedure for reading. every door is the first sentence of a paragraph. the library is the bibliography. the basement is the footnotes. you, the reader, are also a footnote, attached to nobody's text in particular.

— or — to misread?

to enter is to begin to be entered. the labyrinth turns a corner of itself for every step you take. you turn a corner of yourself in return. eventually it becomes difficult to tell which of you is hosting which.

— this was the part i loved most

this is why the catalogue is fragmentary. no complete enumeration is possible without participating in what is being enumerated; no participation leaves an enumeration intact. the catalogue grows from the reading of itself.

— compare hexture

turn the page. the page is also marginal — to the page after it, and to you, and to the moon, and to every visitor who has ever annotated it before you.

library palimpsest footnotes errata return

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