II. Réclamer une réflexion

II. Réclamer une réflexion

Wallmoden, however, did not find this departure from home at all easy, and suffered from the unclear and even unfathomable feelings that this departure conjured up. Yes, these were the first of many repetitious and increasing feelings to come—which were as if he had been caught up in the gears of events by the seam or the hem of his clothing, which continued to pull him in and would from now on manipulate his movements… —Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s Mars im Widder (15 December 1939-15 February 1940 reissued 1947, 1976-7), Mars in Aries translated by Robert von Dassanowsky and Elisabeth Littell Frech for Ariadne Press (2003)

EEG waves of on-off shifts of the extrasensory aptly named for the retiarii and secutores’s mark of condemnation—Appearing in the gesso on board, as seen from the collector’s library where he stood in his field uniform dusted in fallen plaster, in the Bakelite surround of a singed pipe stem, approaching a desk-strewn letter opener and lamp, wholesale exhaling a sickly phenolic odor of artificial amber, as John Tunnard

Completes Theta (1939)—The first daguerreotype (16-17 July 1850) of a star is Vega; confirmed while calibrating the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite (1985) of the brightest, and future polestar, in the constellation Lyra,

Cradled in circumstellar clouds in otherwise siliceous debris fields in the cosmic ocean, of graphite—Likened to a cache of knives excavated under the Bronze/Iron Age Idalion (1986); the smiths there having employed the same method of hardening an olive stave for putting out the Cyclop’s eye (IX.393-4); and by taking an electron microscope to its microns, reveal the same carbon-iron tempered alloy unrecognized until Adolf Martens’s metallography (b.1850), whose martensitic stainless steel (1890) hastens blast furnace ordinance and cladding for the five field armies of Operation Fall Weiss (15 June 1939)—Manufacturing at Essen Krupp A.G. is expanded by Hoerbiger’s steel spring compressor valves (1895); endowing apocalyptic visions of Welteislehre (1913), which in part projected calamitous expressions of wir stehen vor einem Abgrund—

A razor’s edge of icy planets shepherded by moons keeping the gaseous band contained and its divisions

Discrete—Followed by surveys of oceans and insulating ice-volcanic melt taken in their reconsidered vitality after thirteen-years of flybys; Cassini, whose passages by the Sun bending the radio link now confirm Einstein’s calculations against then muffled allegations of a Zionist conspiracy at the Archenhold-Sternwarte (2 June 1915), at last, crosses the ring plane (26 April 2017)—The Reich tinkerer, who contends primacy of northern climates, shapes a glacial cosmology; chief among which is a theory of sunspots appreciated from investigations of poured crucibles on snow, which accelerates the retirement-expulsion of Kasimir Graff from the Vienna Observatory (1938)—The firm lives on in a sanitized legacy of engineering solutions from one of the 27.000 corporate registries; more than one for each of its citizens, from the Swiss canton of Zug, the tax shelter and old growth oak forest of a newly discovered lichen (2012)—

Perhaps sighted by the botanist Simon Schwendener in the 1860s vacationing in the western lakes; he who is the first to recognize the symbiosis of two species—Despite her lost Linnaean Society paper (1897) elaborating on the confounded structure of alga and fungus, she describes herself hared by the master conservator at Kew—Miss Potter studies a darting rabbit, and retrieves the habit of the prey animal’s fecundity, of buck and doe, the grunt and falling-off resulting in kindling; never again to revisit the subject of a fungal dictionary (31 January 1897)—Before leaving the Victoria Gate, her hand for the last time scratches and drops the white pine rust basidiospores texturing a plucked leaf underside of a trained gooseberry—

Rilke retires briefly to Geneva (1921)—With the mother of Balthus, Baladine Klossowska (b.1886), who was born the year Rilke matriculates to the military school of St. Hippolytus; onymous with the saint torn apart by wild horses, becoming their patron, Sankt Pölten—On which fellow student, Count Wallmoden, closely reads the third and fourth enjambed lines of suddenly held-out hurdles / of our wishes (1924)—Mitsou, who is last seen tormenting a nest of whitethroats in the gooseberry

Canes, has an ending left undedicated to Rilke’s captions of forty panels in Chinese ink (1921), which the mature artist inserts the thorny bush, then overtaken by sawflies, in Girl at a Window (1955)—John Tunnard’s

Lack of memory in later years derived perhaps from making altered schematics of the blanketing fog; admitted by even the early Square, Bird and Stone (1947) on printed silk, that is, rockbound—When one fast ray traverses one wavelength at the slow ray’s return, of a misnamed catalog entry at the Tate Gallery (1972), the canvas Tolpen (1942) that befits the signal varied equally for the coaster through the reef and encircling gillnet and double guitar of the Cornish bay, TolPedn (1942)—Shingling overhangs, lichen

Digests mineral substrates with oxalic acid; and it is therefore suitable for marble polishing—Rivaling all the vibrant pigments of Balthus, whose artist’s palette is now speaking for the untraceable szlachta exonym of Count de Rola, whose Tate retrospective telegram is publically, NO BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS. BEGIN: BALTHUS IS A PAINTER OF WHOM NOTHING IS KNOWN. NOW LET US LOOK AT THE PICTURES. REGARDS. B. (1968)—An afterlife branding made-to-order hewn granite countertop; then there is the Balthus necktie knot, the origin of this cosmic gray flannel arrives from what Yves Bonnefoy (1957) has to say about Nude in Front of a Mantel (1955), an immensely fruitful defeat—Eurydice, according to Ovid, walks haltingly from her wound (X.86), neither impelled nor compelled, but merely unidentified to the animating Lyra

Of the Summer Triangle; highest in the Northern hemisphere on the ides of July—der Abgrund

Der menschlichen Seele, Wallmoden passes on to the inscrutable Cuba von Pistohlkors on the preemptive military cull of the eldest of the Spanish Riding School, including the bloodline of the Danish stud Pluto (b. 1765), and his recollection of the spearhead of mounted ceremonies when he boarded at St. Pölten—Striding two abreast along the Mariahilfer Strasse after the last showing of the Apollo-Kino, she digresses on Hölderlin (1797-1800), the supposed voice of the age, who makes much of Diogenes Laërtius’s account of the Olympian charioteer (496 B.C.E.), who, at no time anticipates his grandson, Empedocles, poised to leap into the crater of Mongibello–Overhead, the disciplined squadron held their payloads, then diving with the unified wail of the Stuka Jericho-Trompete spooking a column of Polish counter cavalry to be fired upon by a solitary StuKa Ju87—Observing the wrinkles formed in real-time on a thin casing of the short, compact torpedo upturning a slow funnel of earth, for an ensuing second, Wallmoden sinks with the sharp bite into his left hand mistaken for shrapnel by the twisted ventral brackets of a prototype of the Henschel Hs-293 (1939)—Brainchild of Dr. Herbert Alois Wagner; with Wernher von Braun among others evading the Soviets in Operation Paperclip (May 1945), with cases of blueprints containing his investigations from 1925 of insect wing strategic airlift and recovery of bounded vortices—Researches into the plan of a fire-and-forget munition radioed in by coordinates for smuggling merchant ships, to which the Allied response is; quite possibly, from Frederick, Maryland, and Wagner’s provisional department, the Felix the Cat VB-6 (1945)—From this opening of aeronautical primacy, wreckage rematerializes into a nuclei on a map Goering remainders to Luftwaffen Feld-Divisions—

The Party had overtaken University of Vienna medical school graduates—Each surgeon serving in the Austrian army; and Nobel laureates, Róbert Bárány (1900, 1914) and Julius Wagner-Jaurreg (1880, 1927) in good company with August von Hayek (1895), the father of Nobel economist (1974) Friedrich Hayek, who abandoned the First World War influenza epidemic for taxonomic divisions—

Of Centaurea—The true blue of alpine thistles; particularly, Centaurea cyanus, whose flower heads in the hefted flocks seemed to her blue circlets—From a gas cylinder of radicalized diatomic carbon at the base, where varnish warmed  to be poured on the collodion negatives of Millais’s working progress by her father jurist and amateur photographer—Rupert Potter appeared at dinner with B. and Bertie trailed by the faint traces of cyanogen soap, to remove lunar caustic, on his cuffs—There too, a flame of a baffled burner universalized by Robert Bunsen (1854), whose student is the most distinguished Potter relation, by the element found to contain the most stable vanadyl ion—Vanadium chemist Henry Enfield Roscoe, who later receives a knighthood (1884) for spectral analysis, with the isolation of the metal in Roscoelite, an ore tinted gooseberry

Green—Kleine Aster (1912), which is first, caught between the drowned drayman’s teeth, abgrundtief

Of the missing left iris of the Amarna bust in the Neues Museum displayed in 1923, and like Else Lasker-Schüler, born in Thebes—Gottfried Benn makes out the reproach of ex-lover, Tell me – what am I that all these / Flowers blossom in my body and soul? (1923)—Mechanical impulse to electrical oscillation of the cut quartz crystal of a static wireless and indication of a vanishing point into an allegory of John Tunnard’s

Weather, where the picture Phantom (1959) leans five degrees from the ecliptic, the Moon turns its full aspect to the Sun, fleetingly eclipsing it—Grey planes of a surface bristle and acuminate in postwar raw concrete—From Le poème de l'angle droit (1955), cover that retains the breath of fiery serpents, A.4 Entre bosses et dans fissures / glissant sur les durs et s'enfonçant […] of formerly, oakmoss lichen—

Such later summer hoarfrost illuminated by their torchlights; overground and against his panic from crayfish migrating in a cordon among leaden furrowed trunks the shades of the liveries of officers, as morgue poet before achieves […] for the eye / enough celestial participation (1912)—Wallmoden, himself, marked by a dueling scar beneath his left eye, and in this season of stag's rut, whittles the air for his lost meeting and François Coty’s source of Le Chypre (1917), the nose’s once left eye wiped by a retinal thrombosis, concentrating from an aventurescent perfume emanating from certain hours in the woods—Gottfried Benn as an intern reads Ewald Hering’s Zur Lehre vom Lichtsinne (Vienna, 1878), offering how an afterimage encodes the three primaries, whereby the photoreceptors become fatigued by their opponents into negligence; subsuming otherwise in his hands, a pathology from the overlying temporal lobe compressing a tract of the optic chiasm, with the resulting monocular defect, the two hemispheres fused by the lyra Davidis—

Ten-strings of the psalterium abridged in the Egyptian lyre—First sightings followed the horns of the Apis bull, a winged gateway or sundisk, by then, the cattle yoke and tortoiseshell body shoulder steadied and consigned by Hermes’s combining intellect the radiating ribs of the carapace—Lyra’s

Sulafat, Gamma Lyrae, brought into line with the eclipsing binary, Beta Lyrae, signposts Viennese-trained Jenő Gothard’s photographic plate of the Ring Nebula (M57) (1 September 1886)—From the first holding of the Berlin Museum (1903), and the XVIII dynasty of Amarna and the coregency of Nefertiti-Neferneferuaten, whose unfinished aspect is incidentally upturned by the wife of the photographer of the Pendlebury’s expedition (January 1933), Hilary Waddington—At the same time uncovering the window in the gate of the Pathexgraph as Arthur Evans raises the hornless black talc-schist, red jasper, inlaid shell bull’s head rhyton, its left side the unrestored original, in Hall IV of the Dolphin fresco at Knossos—Divisions

Of schist and sluices of Genesis, according to the tenets of Neptunism, and the facsimile of Bertuch’s entry of Das Boramez, oder Scythische Lamm (1806), at the nadir of which Stanisław Lem projects a thick layer of colloidal snow, before infilling the mimoid, and the speaker remains mummiform within Die Mergelgrube, The Marl-pit, from a collection by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1844)—Left by the German speaking governess, Annie Blanche Carter, for the contented house-holding bordering the house of correction and gas and coke plant at Wendelesorde; later known by the Wandsworth shield accession at the British Museum (1858) they come into after dropping off the proofs at 46 Great Russell Street—Lichen;

alleged to leaven the loaves of the Egyptians, staid in the insolubility of granite markers, already wreathed the base of the Warne monument she had seen walking in Highgate after unremitting rain, a gold flecked woodwax, Hygrophorus chrysodon, out from the dead leaves—Bunches of curled grape, agrest, the wild gooseberry

Preserve the glazing of the elders of Lwów; apportioned to the Empire (1772), and celebrating  its lecturer Sacher-Masoch (b.1836), and lesser known physician in the Austro-Hungarian army, the laryngologist, Samuel Lemm (b.1879)—Zbigniew Herbert at the Ossolineum pauses over the pages of the vegetable lamb, while reading for Wallmoden Cuba pulls the trump, Księżniczka Kielicha, Princess of Cups—The golden fleece; she accedes, not knowing it concerns withdrawal of the Romanian Bridgehead to Lwów, is sea silk whose lemon gilded byssal threads anchor their wings in a star array on the non-ground, Abgrund

Of sea grass—Among the fingerlings caught in low tides, boomeranged by the frames of bones and attached flesh of Grey Mullet (1953)—When the film source material, The Sea Around Us (1953) shoals submarines around the faces of Amphitrite in John Tunnard’s

Dialogue of Two Heads (1955)—Adam Zagajewski is born on the June solstice in Lwów (1945), Lvov, around whose Rynok square figures of Neptune, Diana, Amphitrite and Adonis is splayed suitcases, one of which is Cuba’s—Surviving Delphinus below the Summer Triangle and a bubble in the 3 Kelvin microwave background rippled by plutonium’s novel implosion (16 July 1945) by an unseen kitharode collapsed into a sand dollar dove of John Tunnard’s

Ascension (1945)—By a battery of ocean water, the dielectric by Lichtenberg (1800-6), whose compass of motives issued in 32 winds from Freud to Einstein (1932) in a vessel loaned by the auxiliary coastguard vessel bottom lined in acrylic polymer slab to total darkness—The tsarist Pulkovo Observatory (1839), its dome and meridian crumbling, is resurrected in 1946 if not by astrometry, and the then unsolved Blazhko effect (1907) through the pulsating luminosity and rung in the cosmic distance ladder of RR Lyrae—

From the concussion and resulting radiculopathy in the left hand, Wallmoden’s sleeping crab claw reaching for the second piece of explosive bitten into the Ab-grund (1936-8)

Swaying not giving way parting the estate’s erupting bookcase of the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499 and Zibaldone quaresimale da Rucellai (d.1481); the latter’s vellum pages pleated to Boethius Adeo nihil est miserum, nisi cum putes (II.4.18)—Invoking the descendants (1250), the utter sententiousness of Fortune that compels Giovanni Rucellai’s sailcloth and sumptuary business in purple dyestuff—An unconscious congregation of forms replete with industrialist Vienna’s Paul Friedländer (1895) synthesizing thioindigo of the Carpathian carpet, isolated 6,6'-dibromoindigo experienced again in Tyrian purple, the footprints still visible in the settled plasterwork—Prolonged with the shadow path on a Mediterranean escarpment where grey oricello color shell sails and the magnification of aceto-orcein of elastic tissue, of karyokinetic divisions,

Acid-base indicator litmus (1812)—Finding her in the Lviv oblast of 1945, much longer and off-course from the uncorrupted reciting Constantine Cavafis’s Before the Statue of Endymion (1895),[...] on a white chariot drawn by four snow-white mules—Rain scald on the solitary Mutevolezza until this head injury manifests, where the foreign exchange student insists on changing conveyances en route to the American Consulate in Cracow—Marked with death’s head for desertion, and dried blood mistaken for the tincture of orchil lichens

The student, mule and cart blown away in a barrage of splinters out of the sylvan muzzle brake of a Sturmgeschütz; somewhere, along the Baltic Amber Road whose holdings were uncovered by Schliemann at Mycenae (1877)—Disintegration loops of mourning those years separately; and martial, in unison, for un trou de mémoire, un trou de loup from the Gallic wars pointed for meaning behind the Aldine crest of a trident and dolphin, in which case Cuba asks if he would like be shown, grappling him with her long legs—From delphys as from Delphi, a retaken discussion of Earth of water, letter tzaddi, the fish hook and secret of the Law, which pulls the fish out of water on the fifth day, resumed by Derrida, a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur (1978b: 285)—Taking in the exhibition of Adriaen Coorte’s hundredfold output between 1683 and 1707 at the National Gallery of Art (2003), which includes the currant gooseberry—

Within the nightfall of an auditorium, he calls to mind Martha Bernays's letter posted from Wandsbek (28 May 1886) on the episode from Novalis’s “Hyacinth and Roseblossom” (1802) in which its lead at last lifts the veil of Isis abstracted from the flora, among them, the gooseberry—

Papered until admission within this distant text of neurology, Paul Klee illustrated best (1949)—Determined in stretch induced affinity of myofilament excitation to coupling, and shown from Baltimore test site, the rate of heart’s elastic competence firing under spontaneous calcium sparks (Cheng, Lederer, & Cannell, 1993)—John Tunnard’s

Diagram of the Sea Bed (1947) transfers these lattices of Klee’s—By an untied sea belt, Laminaria saccharina that is the source of calcium alginate and natural hemostat, wound out of which the claw of Cancer the Crab may be found between of the two brightest stars of Castor and Pollux and Leo's Regulus among submerged lunar period and urchin Sun on the Tenby beach, where Beatrice eyes the driftwood script lichen,

As it may or may not have come into the nomenclature, Xylographa opegraphella—Novalis, who studied Sanskrit during the arrangement of The Novices of Saïs (1802), understood that it speaks in order to speak—From Capricorn in Abhijit (अभिजीत), the hidden, victorious one Krishna uninvolved for one day in a 27-day sidereal lunar month, and has fallen into the tranquil rhomboid of Lyra—

Citing the Mahabharta’s acts of adharma as they were performed in einen Abgrund

Blickst (Beyond Good and Evil, IV.146; 1886); reprised in the Sils-Maria Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888), Nietzsche, whose sensibility was likened to Arion and dolphin founder (I.24) of the Greek colony of the Appian way, Tarentum, Colonia Neptunia; and who is thought to be reconstituting the divisions

Of fascists, granting that Zarathustra is A Book for All and None (1883-1891)—Wallmoden, in his quarry among the scattered salt of Isis tears by turns the divisions mentally completed of a gooseberry net and caught fast in the June flame trees—With Cuba Pistohlkors as the volatile sovereign, combined in the rain of John Tunnard’s overlay of radio static, after Paul Celan, Heidegger’s most untiring student; and together, reckoning Eingeschossen / in die Smaragdbahn—Inserted into / the emerald-trajectory, […]  At lichen growth and Chiron’s colure through the descendants, their mile high ice layers fleetingly obscured before the lyric, the Unground / Ungrund (1976)—