“Jacques Derrida calls archécriture (= primal writing): pictographs and hieroglyphs, aboriginal forms of visual and concrete poetry, sand paintings and earth mappings, gestural and sign languages, counting systems and numerologies, divinational signs made by man or read (as a poetics of natural forms) in the tracks of animals or of stars through the night sky.”
Rothenberg, Jerome, and Diane Rothenberg. Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983. p. xiv.
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“The colossal scarred monument in the King's River forest mentioned above is burned, half through, and I spent a day in making an estimate of its age, clearing away the charred surface with an axe and carefully counting the annual rings with the aid of a pocket lens. The wood-rings in the section I laid bare were so involved and contorted in some places that I was not able to determine its age exactly, but I counted over four thousand rings, which showed that this tree was in its prime, swaying in the Sierra winds, when Christ walked the earth.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 200.
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