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Alphabet
“
A is for the angelfish that amble around,
B is for the bay where the barnacles are found
C is for the clownfish in the coral reef
D is for the diver discovering the deep
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― ABC at the Sea: The Rhyming Alphabet Ocean Book
― ABC at the Sea: The Rhyming Alphabet Ocean Book
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This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?
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― Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
― Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
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