"I shall succeed in reducing this grove of trees to a catalogue.
A page of tangled plant calligraphy. A thicket of signs: how to read it, how
to clear a path through this denseness? "
"Reading considered as a path toward . . . . The path as a reading: an
interpretation of the natural world?"
p. 47
"the difference between human writing and divine consists in the fact that the number of signs of the former is limited whereas that of the latter is infinite; hence the universe is a meaningless text, one which even the gods find illegible. The critique of the universe is called grammar...."
p. 47
Octavio Paz, one of two essays while in India
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