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 GENERAL PRELUDIUM


Unbinding Newtonian Narrative


The Man who can Read the Stars. often is pressed by
their Influence, no less than the Newtonian who reads ..*
Not & cannot Read is pressed by his own Reasonings &
Experiments.
 William Blake
The literary work or cultural object, as though for the first
time, brings into being that very situation to which it is
also, at one and the same time, a reaction.
 FredricJameson
A specific kind of onesidedness is implied in the act of
reading.
 Paul Ricoeur
All things past are equally and perfectly at rest; and to this
way of consideration of them are all one, whether they
were before the beginning of the world, or but yester-
day..... o L
 John Locke ." .
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