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“The Eiffel Tower,” he said to us the next morning. “Why didn’t we think of it before? The metal
megalith, the menhir of the last Celts, the hollow spire taller than all Gothic spires. What need
did Paris have of this useless monument? It’s the celestial probe, the antenna that collects information from every hermetic valve stuck into the planet’s crust

‘A present is lacking’ is Mallarme’s formula. And Rimbaud: we are not in this world’. Contemporaneity itself is lacking

that is to say not exposed to the disequilibrium between presentation and representation, a disequilibrium whose effective form is the eventual caesura; and submitted to a norm, that of a maximally-attenuated correspondence between the two major categories of ontological immanence: membership and inclusion.