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121.
Stein, op. cit., p. 195. “The composition we . . . thing to know.”

122.
Stevens, “Description Without Place,” op. cit., p. 345. “The theory of . . . of the
world.”

123.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 122. “Ridiculous the waste . . . before and
after.”

124.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p. 133. “We had the . . . beyond any meaning.”

125.
Ibid., p. 125. “only a limited . . . we have been.”

126.
Richards, “The Screens,” in
The Screens and other Poems
, p. 26. “An instrument which . . . it as well.”

127.
Stevens, “Men Made Out of Words,” op. cit., p. 355. “Life consists / Of propositions
about life.”

128.
Rudolph Wurlitzer,
Nog
(New York: Random House, 1968), p. 84. “It’s the next . . . from a name.”

129.
Ibid., p. 106. “There is nothing . . . to play with.”

130.
Richards, “Complementary Complementarities,” op. cit., p. 36. “that’s not how . . .
well be none.”

131.
Eliot, “Four Quartets,” op. cit., p.129. “Not the intense . . . cannot be deciphered.”

132.
Richards, “Silences,”
The Screens and other Poems
, p. 55. “But listen! When . . . listens: listen again.”

Part III

   
1.
Wallace Stevens, “Adagia,” in
Opus Posthumous
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), p. 168. “The word must . . . question of identity.”

   
2.
Ihab Hassan,
The Literature of Silence
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 207. “The objective world . . . are their habit.”

   
3.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
, trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuiness (New York: The Humanities Press, 1960), p.
115, para 5. 6. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

   
4.
T. E. Hulme,
Speculations
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1924), p. 231. “no longer any refuge in the
infinities of grandeur.”

   
5.
Wallace Stevens, “Description Without Place,” in
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p.339. “observing is completing . . . it in the
mind.”

   
6.
Hulme, op. cit., p. 223. “The same old . . . good as another.”

   
7.
Stevens, “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,” op. cit., p. 474. “words of the . . .
of the world.”

   
8.
Ibid., “Things of August,” p. 490. “The speech of . . . in what it says.”

   
9.
Simone Weil,
Gravity and Grace
(London: Routledge and Paul, 1963), trans. Emma Crawford, p. 542. “A closed door
. . . the way through.”

  
10.
T. E. Hulme,
Further Speculations
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962), p. 82. “Transfer physical to language.”

  
11.
Stevens, “Esthetique Du Mal,” op. cit., p. 313. “He disposes the world in categories.”

  
12.
Samuel Beckett,
The Unnamable, in Three Novels by Samuel Beckett
(New York: Grove Press, 1955), p. 326. “There’s no getting . . . keep in mind.”

  
13.
Beckett,
Molloy
, op. cit., p. 31. “The icy words . . . the words know.”

  
14.
David Pears,
Ludwig Wittgenstein
(New York: The Viking Press, 1962), p. 179. “Meaning and necessity . . . which embody
them.”

  
15.
Alain Robbe-Grillet,
For a New Novel
, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Grove Press, 1965), p. 19. “neither significant
nor . . . splendid construction collapses.”

  
16.
Victor Gioscia, “Frequency and Form,” in
Radical Software
, No. 2, 1970, p. 7. “Universe is not . . . at varying distances.” . . . “Universe
is not . . . facade of omniscience.”

  
17.
Wittgenstein,
Tractatus
, p. 149, para. 6.44. “not how things . . . that it exists.”

  
18.
Advertisement for “Friends of the Earth,” reprinted in
The Whole Earth Catalog Supplement
. “everyone talks about . . . this way fast.”

  
19.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
Selected Prose
, trans. Mary Hottinger and Tania & James Stern (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952),
p. 182. “where is this . . . Here! Or nowhere.”

  
20.
Norman 0. Brown, “Daphne or Metamorphosis,” in
Myths, Dreams, and Religions
, ed. Joseph Campbell (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1970), p. 108. “the whole story
. . . Our very eyes.”

  
21.
Robbe-Grillet, op. cit., p. 33. “To tell a story has become strictly impossible.”

  
22.
Beckett,
Molloy
, op. cit., p. 32. “Saying is inventing . . . You invent nothing.”

  
23.
Brown, op. cit., p. 93. “Saying makes it so.”

  
24.
Beckett,
The Unnamable
, op. cit., p. 386. “I’m in words . . . all these strangers.”

  
25.
Stevens, “Two Prefaces,” in
Opus Posthumous
, p. 270. “The god that . . . the question itself.”

  
26.
Beckett,
The Unnamable
, op. cit., p. 390 “The thing said . . . a common source.”

  
27.
Shakespeare, “A world full . . . signifying nothing.”

  
28.
E. E. Cummings,
I
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), p. 69. in any number of . . . “past,”
“present,” or “future.”

  
29.
Hulme,
Speculations
, p. 221. “it is impossible . . . the symbolic language.”

  
30.
Stevens, “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour,” in
Collected Poems
, p. 524. “Here, now, we . . . in the mind.”

  
31.
Stevens, “As You Leave the Room,” in
Opus Posthumous
, p. 117. “nothing has been . . . changed at all.”

  
32.
Paul Valery,
The Outlook For Intelligence
(New York: Harper & Row, 1962), p. 157. “All the notions . . . calling the tune.”

  
33.
Ibid., p. 162. “the real is . . . carry much weight.”

  
34.
Robbe-Grillet, op. cit., p. 148. “description comes to . . . creation and destruction.”

  
35.
Valery, op. cit., p. 68. “once speculation was . . . no longer conceivable.”

  
36.
Ibid., p. 69. “simply that our . . . is positively transcendent.”

  
37.
Stevens, “Connoisseur of Chaos,” in
Collected Poems
, p. 215. “The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind.”

  
38.
Hassan, op. cit., p. 127. “the facts of . . . doubt on both.”

  
39.
Ezra Pound, “Ortus,” in
Personae
(New York: New Directions, 1926), p. 84. “I “I beseech you . . . but a being.”

  
40.
Stevens, “The Rock,” op. cit., p. 525. “The lives lived . . . to be believed.”

  
41.
Ibid., “Chocorua To Its Neighbor,” p. 298. “He was not . . . existing everywhere.”

  
42.
Robbe-Grillet, op. cit., p. 147. “once claimed to . . . to disappear altogether.”

  
43.
Stevens, “United Dames of America,” op. cit., p. 206. “The mass is . . . man of the
mass.”

  
44.
Ibid., “The Rock,” p. 525. “it is an illusion that we were ever alive.”

  
45.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Philosophical Investigations
, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958), p. 48, para. 115.
“A picture held . . . to us inexorably.”

  
46.
Robbe-Grillet, op. cit., p. 23. “we had thought . . . all its life.”

  
47.
Stevens, “St. Armorer’s Church from the Outside,” op. cit., p. 529. “No sign of . . .
as its symbol.”

  
48.
Weil, op. cit., p. 28. “decreation: to make . . . to the uncreated.”

  
49.
Wallace Stevens,
The Necessary Angel
(New York: Random House, Inc., 1951), p. 175. “Modern reality is . . . our own powers.”

  
50.
Weil, op. cit., p. 29. “we participate in . . . by decreating ourselves.”

  
51.
Stevens, “Adagia,” in
Opus Posthumous
, p. 169. “Life is the elimination of what is dead.”

  
52.
Beckett,
The Unnamable
, op. cit., pp. 394-95. “There was never . . . me of me.”

  
53.
Valery, op. cit., p. 40. “When I dream I . . . I not . . . Nature?”

  
54.
Brown, op. cit., p. 100. “a fall into . . . natural object: ‘projected.’” “the death
of . . . birth of poetry.”

  
55.
Ibid., p. 107 (quoting Blake). “each herb and . . . men seen afar.”

  
56.
Von Hofmannsthal, op. cit., p. 349 “man perceives in . . . needs of the world.”

  
57.
Pears, op. cit., p. 4 “need any justification . . . center, man himself.”

  
58.
Beckett, op. cit., p. 404. “the fault of . . . comes from that.”

  
59.
Ibid., pp. 334-35. “it’s a lot . . . of such expressions.”

  
60.
Hassan, op. cit., p. 119. “Combat all rationalist . . . a metaphysical universe.”

  
61.
Paul Valery,
Masters and Friends: The Collected Works of Paul Valery, Vol. 9
, ed. Jackson Matthews, trans. Martin Turnell (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1968), p. 69. “made a personal . . . tipped the balance.”

  
62.
Henry Miller,
The Wisdom of the Heart
(New York: New Directions, 1941), p. 169. “own validity . . . and unthinkable order.”

  
63.
Weil, op. cit., p. 34. “Uproot yourself . . . every earthly country.”

  
64.
Paul Valery,
History and Politics: The Collected Works of Paul Valery, Vol. 10
, ed. Jackson Matthews, trans. Denise Folliot and Jackson Matthews (New York: Pantheon
Books, 1962), p. 222. “How can anyone . . . curiosities, a masquerade.”

  
65.
Beckett, op. cit., p. 388. “It has not . . . midst of silence.”

  
66.
Valery,
Outlook For Intelligence
, p. 136. “our kind of . . . in their solutions.”

  
67.
Robbe-Grillet, op. cit., p. 14. “to illustrate a . . . such to themselves.”

  
68.
Stevens, “The Creations of Sound,” in
Collected Poems
, pp. 310-11. “there are words . . . an artificial man.”

  
69.
Ibid., “Dutch Graves In Bucks County,” p. 292. “Freedom is like . . . an incessant
butcher.”

  
70.
Ibid., “Chaos In Motion And Not In Motion,” p. 358. “He has lost the whole in which
he was contained.”

  
71.
Robbe-Grillet, op. cit., p. 68. “Drowned in the . . . impressions and desires.”

  
72.
Ibid., p. 51. “to recover
everything
. . . as a whole.”

  
73.
Ibid., p. 58. “A common nature . . . to everything: man.”

  
74.
Hulme,
Speculations
, p. 166. “Man is an . . . is absolutely constant.”

  
75.
Robbe-Grillet, op. cit., p. 75. “Man is a sick animal.” (quoting Unamano). “Imprison
him in the disease.”

  
76.
Stevens, “Less And Less Human, 0 Savage Spirit,” op. cit., p.328. “the human that
. . . incommunicable mass.”

  
77.
Beckett,
Molloy
, op. cit., p. 110. “From their places . . . and as bound.”

  
78.
Stevens, “The Common Life,” op. cit., p. 221. “The men have no shadows.” “A man is
a result, a demonstration.”

  
79.
Hassan, op. cit., p. 207. “the role of . . . are their habit.”

  
80.
Valery, op. cit., p. 42. “I can find . . . itself are myths.”

  
81.
Brown, op. cit., p. 109. “Private authorship or . . . all one book.”

  
82.
Beckett,
The Unnamable
, op. cit., p. 325. “it’s of me . . . with their language.”

  
83.
Ibid. “I slip into . . . Of what was.”

  
84.
Ibid. “never anyone but . . . Words, what others.”

  
85.
Ibid., pp. 290-300. “I must not try to think, simply utter.” “I shall have . . .
encumbered this place.”

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