NP exactly but...on that theme in HOPSCOTCH

[Mark Kohut]

"He felt a sort of hateful tenderness, something so contradictory that it
must have been truth itself."
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AND, "Shit, Money and the Word".

      Cortazar loves fish as a symbol---see "Axolotl"--a symbol of
Otherness, of a species so different we can't, but must try, to understand
them.
--they, who disappear when they look straight at us [in an aquarium],
then, with the flick of a fin, there can be
"the ballast" of "a transparent ribbon of excrement still sticking to
them".....which 'compromises' them--a word going around their circles, a
kind of non-satirized Whole Sick Crew --
"from the perfection of their pure imagery". .....

Love this. So unexpected. Another old theme, life vs Ideality.

Logos is oft-used, by the way, once in a sacred-profane surprise--"he made
her drink the semen which ran into her mouth like a challenge to the
Logos"--and the need to work, on the part of La Maga especially, is part of
the plot.
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