How Rholad Mobol Wrote One of His Essays
BY SILAS FLANNERY
The Apocrophyl Journal of Literature, Issue XLVI, Spring 1983

Subject Triangle:
The author ( A )
The forger ( F )
The ghost ( G )

Object Triangle:
The story ( S )
The translation ( S’)
The hidden text ( H_S )

Star of David:
The author who writes well ( A ) composes a story that is perfection ( S ).
The story that is perfection is read by the forger who writes poorly ( F ).
The forger composes a translation that is anathema ( S’).
The translation alludes to a ghost who writes elusively ( G ).
The ghost emerges from a hidden text that is apocalyptic ( H_S ).
The hidden text hides the crime of the author.

The author disappears from the translation.
The forger disappears from the hidden text.
The ghost disappears from the story.

NOTE

The essay in question is "Reading Itself Myself" (Canonical Review, 1982). More precisely, the synthoulipian structure of Section One. (The "prose" which succeeds these four paragraphs follows other schemata and other restraints.)

The Star of David model is an American adaptation of the formulations of the Israeli semiology of Benjamin Rosh (see in particular Goyim Semantics, Israeli Partisan Press, Jerusalem, 1972, pp. 137ff.).

Copyright 1997, Zachary L Hammerman
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