Intertwining: the Chiasm

What are intertwining?
reversibility tof he visible and the tangible
reversibility of the speech and what it signifies
....something else towards the end

the touching & the touched
How do we feel the textures by touching? à touching is part of the being touched
“…while it is felt from within, is also accessible from without…..if it takes its place among the things it touches, is
in a sense one of them, opens finally upon a tangible being of which it is also a part” P133

the seer & the visible
“myself seen from without, such as another would see me, installed in the midst of the visible, occupied in considering it from a certain spot.” P134

When we look at something, we are not foreign to the world that we look at. We as seer, are part of it.

the tangible and the visible
The tangible itself has visual existence; visible and tangible belong to the same world

“There is double and crossed situating of the visible in the tangible and of the tangible in the visible; the two maps are complete, and yet they do not merge into one. The two parts are total parts and yet are not superposable.” P134

the flesh of the visible
“a visible is a quality pregnant with a texture, the surface of a depth…” P136

our body
body is not a thing, not a matter, but a sensible for itself. P135
“Our body commands the visible for us” P136
“our body is a being of tow leaves, from one side a thing among things and otherwise what sees them and touches them” P137

If it touches them and sees them, this is only because, being of their family, itself visible and tangible, it uses its own being as a means to participate in theirs…because the body belongs to the order of the things as the world is universal flesh” P137

“the body sensed and the body sentient are as the obverse and the reverse, or again, as two segments of one sole circular course which goes above from left to right and below from right to left.” P 138

body in the world
flesh to a flesh (P138)
I am always on the same side of my body; it presents itself to me in one invariable perspective. P148

Visibility, Tangible & Sensible (help~~~~)
“There is vision, touch, when a certain visible, a certain tangible, turns back upon the whole of the visible, the whole of the tangible, of which it is a part, or when suddenly it finds itself surrounded by them, or when
between it and them, and through their commerce, is formed a Visibility, a Tangible in itself…...” P 139
whole, ultimate, becomes one?

flesh
The flesh is not matter, in not mind, is not substance……is an element of Being….adherent to location and to the now P139 bottom
the visible traverses me and constitutes me as a seer, this circle which I do not form, which forms me P140

my hands touch the other Vs. my hands touch another: one eye or one hand has its own vision and touch and experience, but is bound to every other vision and every other touch P141-142


speaking & thinking

true vision P146

the flesh & the idea: the visible & the invisible
ideas cannot be detached from the visible
We do not see, do not hear the ideas, and not even with the mind’s eye or with the third ear: and yet they are there, behind the sounds or between them, behind the lights or between them… P 151

idea
(the idea is)Not really invisible…it is the invisible of this world, that which inhabits this world, sustains it, and renders it visible, its own and interior possibility, the Being of this being. P151

Is my body a thing, is it an idea? It is neither, being the measurant of the things. P 152

meaning
The meaning is not on the phrase like the butter on the bread, like a second layer of “psychic reality” spread over the sound: it is the totality of what is said, the integral of all the differentiations of the verbal chain; it is given with the words for those who have ears to hear. P 155

the last sentence ????