Brilliant Corners

An ocean of language ebbs and floods in wide swaths of print as the pages turn here like waves, though the ocean' s history with land is presumably far vaster than human language' s history in the world. The language of the ocean, of Earth' s formation, permeates this volume that begins over and over again, as its human language revels in its own shortcomings. " My freedom is so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles."