What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.