XIII. Tendue
Inclination’s tributary streams past its love letters in an unrelenting
Map of the body—The Monod, Wyman and Changeux (MWC) model of allostery
Resists and eludes such control at the level of folding, where nothing is partial—
And not the purview of poetry—Conversations with Sapho stake on hemoglobin’s
Two sets of alpha and beta chains that hem in a water-filled cavity—Affinity’s
Deoxy- or tense (T) structure, to oxy- or relaxed, (R) assembly of tenderness—
Bruising, from a dearth of B-group vitamins—The faceted tension for tenderness,
Pliancy, which issues more oxygen into cardiovascular periphery—Iron biased, unrelenting,
Porphyrins of BASF indigo vats with Royal Purple, with L'Exil et le royaume (1957)—An affinity,
Starred strands of heme protein’s oxygen-girding iron touching close to histidine-94—Allostery’s
Transforming silhouette—As we are unbound, by solitude—Unfilled sites for hemoglobin’s
Oxygen-binding, sigmoidal curve—A cooperative swelling, and immediate release partial
To the law with carbon dioxide—Proximal histidine thrusting iron into a partially
Enclosed tetrapyrrole ring for oxygen; fit for provoking Mersault’s tenderness,
Where it ultimately leads to already half-dismembered Zagreus—Deoxyhemoglobin’s
Tense conformation steadied by additive 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate (2,3-BPG)—Unrelenting
As when Patrice last pointed the barrel, or her hand laid on his shoulder—Allosteric
Effectors—2,3-BPG fitting the hollow—Making rounds of the hotel garage, lowering affinity,
Conveying oxygen between tissues and the lungs—It drowses in the released body, affinity—
La Pierre qui pousse in the alluvial fan of Carte de Tendre—La morte heureuse is partial
To an athletic steep in the ocean—Substitutes for a sky blue berceuse, which in MWC allostery
Parameters, input “4” for a tetrameter, the compressed oxygen shifts to the tenderers'
Constituent of will, of unperturbed oxyhemoglobin, “Hello, image”—The unrelentingly
Pure heart’s metabolically active tissue, where equilibrium strongly favors hemoglobin’s
R-state, and little to no oxygen is released, plans Roland’s regime for her—Hemoglobin’s
Stranger, Meursault goes swimming with her, to rinse tubercular night sweats—Affinity
At once enlarges doubt, by a rise in carbon dioxide, a plunge in pH—Then to be unrelentingly
Worshiped, water had become her element and the earth the arid place where partial
Repudiation, lightness fill Clélie’s ten volumes—As a dripping fish—Encoded in tenderness,
The entraîneuse—She cheerfully choked—Rather undergo a conformational change, the allosteric
Prodigal is known by Electra in Le Malentendu (1943)—Higher oxygen must be reached; allosteric
Protein finally hinders itself activating and inhibiting at a distance—As in sexual life, hemoglobin
Strained equivalence is banned from M. de Scudéry’s salon—The map of the land of Tenderness
Unlike the one it allegedly defeated, of liaisons with on-demand lute concerts, pays host to such affinities—
Their paralyzing power; and its accidents are produced limitlessly—Penetrating drive shafts at once partial
To a victimized body before a crash—Advancing this marriage between ruins and springtime, unrelenting
Camus thought intensely of nuptials, of unrelenting bronchial failure—Potential of allosteric
Reception, its purest etymology—A recurring stone beyond the active site, the tensed affinities
Of hemoglobin, the sister of Lazarus, where a Sea leverages cobble for his deaf mother, addicted wife
Inclination’s tributary streams past its love letters in an unrelenting
Map of the body—The Monod, Wyman and Changeux (MWC) model of allostery
Resists and eludes such control at the level of folding, where nothing is partial—
And not the purview of poetry—Conversations with Sapho stake on hemoglobin’s
Two sets of alpha and beta chains that hem in a water-filled cavity—Affinity’s
Deoxy- or tense (T) structure, to oxy- or relaxed, (R) assembly of tenderness—
Bruising, from a dearth of B-group vitamins—The faceted tension for tenderness,
Pliancy, which issues more oxygen into cardiovascular periphery—Iron biased, unrelenting,
Porphyrins of BASF indigo vats with Royal Purple, with L'Exil et le royaume (1957)—An affinity,
Starred strands of heme protein’s oxygen-girding iron touching close to histidine-94—Allostery’s
Transforming silhouette—As we are unbound, by solitude—Unfilled sites for hemoglobin’s
Oxygen-binding, sigmoidal curve—A cooperative swelling, and immediate release partial
To the law with carbon dioxide—Proximal histidine thrusting iron into a partially
Enclosed tetrapyrrole ring for oxygen; fit for provoking Mersault’s tenderness,
Where it ultimately leads to already half-dismembered Zagreus—Deoxyhemoglobin’s
Tense conformation steadied by additive 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate (2,3-BPG)—Unrelenting
As when Patrice last pointed the barrel, or her hand laid on his shoulder—Allosteric
Effectors—2,3-BPG fitting the hollow—Making rounds of the hotel garage, lowering affinity,
Conveying oxygen between tissues and the lungs—It drowses in the released body, affinity—
La Pierre qui pousse in the alluvial fan of Carte de Tendre—La morte heureuse is partial
To an athletic steep in the ocean—Substitutes for a sky blue berceuse, which in MWC allostery
Parameters, input “4” for a tetrameter, the compressed oxygen shifts to the tenderers'
Constituent of will, of unperturbed oxyhemoglobin, “Hello, image”—The unrelentingly
Pure heart’s metabolically active tissue, where equilibrium strongly favors hemoglobin’s
R-state, and little to no oxygen is released, plans Roland’s regime for her—Hemoglobin’s
Stranger, Meursault goes swimming with her, to rinse tubercular night sweats—Affinity
At once enlarges doubt, by a rise in carbon dioxide, a plunge in pH—Then to be unrelentingly
Worshiped, water had become her element and the earth the arid place where partial
Repudiation, lightness fill Clélie’s ten volumes—As a dripping fish—Encoded in tenderness,
The entraîneuse—She cheerfully choked—Rather undergo a conformational change, the allosteric
Prodigal is known by Electra in Le Malentendu (1943)—Higher oxygen must be reached; allosteric
Protein finally hinders itself activating and inhibiting at a distance—As in sexual life, hemoglobin
Strained equivalence is banned from M. de Scudéry’s salon—The map of the land of Tenderness
Unlike the one it allegedly defeated, of liaisons with on-demand lute concerts, pays host to such affinities—
Their paralyzing power; and its accidents are produced limitlessly—Penetrating drive shafts at once partial
To a victimized body before a crash—Advancing this marriage between ruins and springtime, unrelenting
Camus thought intensely of nuptials, of unrelenting bronchial failure—Potential of allosteric
Reception, its purest etymology—A recurring stone beyond the active site, the tensed affinities
Of hemoglobin, the sister of Lazarus, where a Sea leverages cobble for his deaf mother, addicted wife
—Here is our Tenderness
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My addendum acknowledging its failures:
It just occurred to me, in addition to my deficits in all languages, is a rupture in what I had proposed using allosteric, or allo- “other” + steric “arrangement of atoms in space” as a controlling metaphor. Allosteric activation of hemoglobin uses 2,3-BPG to diminish the erythrocyte carrier molecule's affinity for oxygen. In the R-state, 8% of oxygen is released to the tissues; therefore, this other protein alters the conformation of hemoglobin, straining it, so that it will give up some of its oxygen. Certainly, the forensic excavation of every detail, and the notion of reproducing the memory in the glaring light of Truth, is affinity overtaken to its straining point.
I thought of the ubiquitous stone in his work as a signifier of a burden (Myth of Sisyphus) and perhaps the humanizing influence of works. I meant that it is the allosteric effector alleviating the strain; the recognition that we die in spiritual water polishes any intimation of our constructs back into ruins, into rocks.
The entries of Mersault and Meursault into my textual register begin with the recognition of his jealousy. He murders Zagreus as much for his refinement as for the former connection he had with Martha, and he is particularly sensitive to her transactions with others; becoming moody and withdrawn after she brushes another man's shoulder in the theater. (Is it incidental that Martha reappears in Le Malentendu as his murderer when she has the power to provoke him this way?)
Meursault later goes swimming with Martha, for the very reason his wife, Marie Cardona, who he romanced in a pool, announces that their swimming days are over. Marie's resignation is unbearable. From his biography, I read that his first wife was a drug addict, and like his deaf, illiterate mother, he focuses on his powerlessness to change their circumstances. Both his mother and Marie are locked-in by their conditions, and the fictional Marie's quick refutation of an activity he loved so much is a spiritual offense equivalent to his marital infidelity.
Perhaps a point in these contexts, and in an essay in 1938 on nuptials, is that there must be a new formulation of marriage the beyond the tacit arrangement signed off by a magistrate. Meursault is a flawed, self-absorbed person, and he impassively marries Marie because the spiritual marriage happens in the pool, not by acceding to a majority institution. In his defense, he married her, but this is not an endorsement of seeking outside connection at the first misplaced statement.
His extensive love letter collection isn't a sham; there are real attempts at mediating intimacy.
He knew that he would die of tuberculosis at 17,* and so he cut away the indulgence for crying at funerals. It is not insignificant that his mother's death is the opening line of his novel.
Water is the spiritual element in much of his writing, and my point was that it cannot be negotiated with a single-channel watercourse bypassing the shoals of less polite feelings. I like Madame de Scudéry's map for emphasizing mutual regard, but it is equally as contrived as one the reproduced by a male cartographer raking the feminine topography. There was no sex in her salon, although Inclination's river bisects the map. A woman in complete control of the sexual negotiation is just as tyrannical as a man with her courtesies.
These things are just experiments to examine how much I know about subjects, which is why I reuse the same deck, to eliminate any semblance of mastery.
Yes. Our words commit us. I was shuttled back to childhood after hearing the blow by blow analysis of my mother's divorce Friday morning. It was difficult then to imagine a life completely misshaped by such an unnecessary union and the acrimony that followed. I want to change my name, and move completely beyond it.
For a future exploration:
Vav. Tendre une corde
I like this title very much. I will think about the text I want to use with it.
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