“This is a tomb that has no body in it,” says the inscription on the enigmatic tomb of Bologna. It is “a body that has no tomb round it. But body and tomb are the same.” There is no body in the crypt because death has reduced that mortal vessel to dust. What remains is […]

Reader, while I cannot directly gauge your reaction to what I am saying, if you have gotten this far in the book, I imagine you can more or less understand where I am coming from. If you are with me in what I am proposing, if you can see the need for us to put […]

Scene I A woman says to me very affectionately, “Come lie down with me, sleep with me.” I don’t want to do it, I really don’t. I feel guilty about this. The woman is dying. She is my mother. Scene II I am in my parents’ bedroom and they are sleeping. I am trying to […]

Bisecting this structure a third time….   (back to chapter 7)

Bisecting this structure a second time….   (back to chapter 7)

Bisecting this structure ….   (back to chapter 7)

This structure becomes contained….   (back to chapter 7)

This structure becomes contained….   (back to chapter 7)