![]() ![]() That the letters X, Y, and Z come right at the end of the alphabet (and let’s be honest here, I’m really thinking of X & Z), and that they seem so much less employed than any of their fellow letters in this English language (I haven’t yet verified this impression by a survey or anything)… but (resisting the expectation of my syntax) my point is there’s something marginal about those letters, they feel somehow both within and outside of that always recombinatory organism, the alphabet, and when I’m abstracting my way through the stacks of the library, or any other spatially dispersed manifestation of the alphabet, I feel some sense of promise (the promise of the margin) when I find myself shaped in the space of X or Z.Īnd so it is the greatest pleasure when a book found under such a sign fulfills this promise, a promise whose expectations can only be fulfilled by being exceeded. ![]()
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