Spielraum

Review:

Illustrating the Spiegel-Spiel des Gevierts

"At the point of convergence
the play of similarities and differences
cancels itself out in order that
identity alone may shine forth.
The illusion of motionlessness,
the play of mirrors of the one:
identity is completely empty;
it is a crystallization and
in its transparent core
the movement of analogy
begins all over once again."

— The Monkey Grammarian

by Octavio Paz, translated by
Helen Lane