Difference between revisions of "Length Withought Breath"
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Latest revision as of 09:34, 8 May 2011
- length without breadth: Euclid, Elements, Book 1, Definition 2: "A line is length without breadth (Γραμμη δε μηκος απλατες)
- World without end, Amen: the closing words of the prayer Gloria Patri ("Glory Be to the Father")
- thought
- breath → length without breath suggests the corpse of HCE laid out lengthwise, breathless → hence the allusion to death (Tod) in the margin
