IN THE SERVICE OF THE FIGURE WHICH SCRAMBLES THE
BRIGHT SIGN OF FREQUENCIES STILL ASSOCIATED WITH
OVERLY BUCCAL VOWELS BUT THROUGH TRANSPOSING THE
INTELLIGIBLES WHICH FOR THEIR PART FORM VARIANTS
OF A NUMERIC TEXT IN WHICH SERIES OF COLUMNS ARE
ALIGNED AND WHERE LIGATURES ADOPT THE APPEARANCE
OF LACUNAE VIA THE ARTIFICES OF THE CONVENTIONAL
WHILE THE MESSAGE TRANSFORMS IN THE MARGINS OF A
CODE THAT REDUCES THE DISPROPORTION OF ANNOUNCED
PLAUSIBLES IN ALPHABETICAL COMBINATION WHAT MUST
BE SUBSTITUTED ONE FOR THE OTHER BEFORE REVISION
INTO POSITIONS MARKED BY CERTAIN CLASSIFIED KEYS
ABBREVIATED TO INITIALS OF THE NAME THAT CAREFUL
VERIFICATION BETRAYS TO THE RISK OF THE POSSIBLE
CONFUSION WITH INCOHERENCIES ASSEMBLED UNDER THE
RUSE OF INACCURATE SEQUENCES WHOSE HESITANT DEBT
JUSTIFIES THE VERY EXACT TERMS OF DELICATE WORDS
TO BE AUTHENTICATED IN ORDER NOT TO DISCLOSE THE
CRYPTOGRAM AS A PARODY OF CALCULATION PERILOUSLY
DRAFTED IN THE EVENT OF RUSHING WITHOUT A LETTER
TRANSMITTED BY THE DECIPHERER COMPLETELY MASKING
THE PERMUTATED AND SECRET CORRESPONDENCES OF THE
WRITING WHICH STRATEGICALLY CONCEALED WITHIN THE
COMPOSITION IS ISOLATED BY LAW FROM THE INTERIOR
THIS DEAD ANGLE BASTION IN WHICH A PAGE PERSISTS
BENEATH SEALS CAUGHT WITHIN THEIR IMPRESSIONS OF
MISTAKES ALONG WITH AN OMISSION ANTICIPATED SANS
THE SIGNAL OF THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE FIRST FUTILE
ALERT OF AN ARSENAL OF THE SPIRIT IN POSITION AS
SOON AS NIGHT LOCKS ITS RAMPART LINED BY CRENELS
ALONG A SURROUNDING WALL BOUNDARIED BY OBSERVANT
PATROLS OF AN INVESTIGATION THAT HOLLOWS OUT THE
LINE OF REINFORCING STRUCTURES SHOOTING DIRECTLY
TO A RECTILINEAR RADIUS IN WHICH AN ARROW POINTS
IN A GRAPHIC DIRECTION TO LINEAMENTS OF SYLLABIC
CONTOURS PIERCED BY LOOPHOLES NO SOONER CUT INTO
THE THICKNESS OF A VIGIL DEFENDING ACCESS TO ITS
ESSENTIAL FLANKS THAN A RUDE PROTOCOL FOLLOWS OF
WHICH THE REPETITION ENGAGING TOWARD THE CENTRAL
POSITION OF ORAL FORMULAE SEQUESTERED WITHIN THE
FORTIFICATIONS OF LYRICS WHICH DETAIN INEFFABLES
OFTEN REBELLIOUS TO INSURGENT SUBJECT AND TRYING
TO PROTECT ITSELF FULLY AGAINST LISTENING AT THE
THRESHOLD OF DETECTING DANGERS RECOGNIZABLE UPON
ONE’S GUARD WITH ALL THE MOVEMENT OF A FALSIFIED
INTERROGATION CONTAINED WITHIN THE COLLECTION OF
EVIDENCE WRITTEN ONLY ON THE FINAL PAGE OF FACTS
OBSERVED BY THE LOOKOUT WHO WATCHES ON THE MOUNT
TAKEN BY PLUNGING PERSPECTIVES WHERE IMAGINABLES
ABSCOND LOSING ACUITY NO SOONER THAN THE EYE AND
ITS ANNEXES WANDERING THE QUADRILLAGE TESTIFY TO
A CHAIN OF COINCIDENCE TO WHICH A SURVEY IMPARTS
A LEGEND SO THAT LOCAL EQUIDISTANCES BENEATH THE
CROSSHATCHING OF DIMINUTIONS AT THE INTERSECTION
OF BITUMINOUS SEGMENTS CONNECTED ACROSS BEAMS IN
SHRINKING SOLIDARITY WITH STEPS SHAPED BY DOUBLY
STAGED STAIRWAYS WHOSE RAMPS RUN STRAIGHT TO THE
HEART OF ROTARIES UNDERSCORING A DIVISION IN THE
MEASUREMENTS OF DEGREES TOWARD THE ALLEY LEADING
TO AN AREA EVEN MORE BURDENED BY ROADS SATURATED
WITH A SQUEEZING URBANIZATION WHERE WANDERING IN
PURSUIT OF ITS MOST INTIMATE IMPASSES KEEPS RAGE
ON WALLS LARGELY CONFINED ONTO CRACKING EXPANSES
TO THE PINION WHEN THE FRAMING OF RIGHTS IMPOSES
CAVALIER VISUALS THAT READ SYMMETRICAL AS OPTICS
OF A RETICULAR ILLUSION PROJECTED ON A LABYRINTH
DEVISED TO PLANT MILESTONES IN THE AGGLOMERATION
OF THE EXPIRING TEXTURE OF A CADASTRAL MAP WHICH
REVEALS NEVERTHELESS SOLIDLY AGRARIAN LAND WHOSE
CADASTRAL PARCELS MUST BE EXACTLY LOCATED BEFORE
SKETCHING OUT THE PLAN FOR APPROACHING EVEN MORE
SCRUPULOUSLY THE PURITY OF A CITY WITHOUT A NAME
ALWAYS LATENT IN ITS INDEPENDENCE ENCROACHING ON
IMPERALIST EXCESS FROM WHENCE THE TYRANNIES LASH
OUT AGAINST OUTRIDERS WHO ENSEMBLE ARE ONLY JUST
SUBMISSIVE WHEN CHASTISING ABUSERS ARE COMPELLED
TO REPENT FOR A WICKED LIFE IN WHICH FANATICISTS
SUBJECT EVERY LIAISON TO THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF
CRYING OUTSIDE MEA CULPA LIKE A BITTER ATONEMENT
BY CAPTIVES WHOSE YOKES JAR THE INTOLERABLES WHO
FORCE THE DISHONOR OF MORALITY AS CRUELLY AS THE
EXPULSION OF INDIGENTS FROM REFUGE RELEASED FROM
LANGUAGE OF FLESHY VERNACULARS SLAMMING DOWN THE
PASSAGE OF INVECTIVES AND BRAVING REPRESSIONS SO
VIOLENTLY AFTER ESCAPING SUFFOCATION OF PAPILLAE
BENEATH A GAG OF EXPRESSION WITH AN OVERWHELMING
SENSE OF FAILURE WHEN FOLLY OF THE NARROW-MINDED
OVERWORKS THOSE WHO ARE HYPERTROPHIED IMPRISONED
WITHIN THE TWISTED PARTITIONING BETWEEN MODES OF
SPEAKING THAT EXCLUDE CRAMPED PHRASES PRESSURING
THE PRONOUNCEMENTS FROM THE OTHER PART HAMPERING
AN EFFUSION OF SAYINGS OF WHICH THE SAID IMPEDES
ANY HESITATION IN LOOSENING FRANK TONGUES EXCEPT
WHEN THE UNSPOKEN OF EMPANCIPATED SYNTAX REVOLTS
AT STRIVING FOR EVERYTHING ONLY TO DISCOVER WITH
THE OBVERSE OF ERASURE THE MOST FINAL OF PHRASES
TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF COMMEMORATIVES THAT IN
GRAVE TOPNOTES SING OF THE VANISHING REMEMBRANCE
OF THE VERY FINAL DATE WITHIN A CHRONOLOGY WHOSE
SANCTIFIED INDETERMINATION OF BYGONES LESS EXACT
IN THEIR CHANGES BUT MORE PROPITIOUS IN REVIVING
THE EPHEMERIDES ABANDONED TO THE POWER OF RECALL
THAT WHICH FORGOTTEN IN A RECOLLECTION INSCRIBED
ON THE FRONTON OF CORBELLED CORNICE WITH CONCISE
EX-VOTO ON REVERSE AGAIN CAUGHT BY PHENOMENAE OF
TENACIOUS YET DISTANT MEMORIES AND UNDULY FILLED
WITH UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE AUTHENTICITY OF THOSE
FABULOUS VESTIGES OF THE AFTERIMAGES ASSIMILATED
IN AN ANALOGY OF REMINISCING ABOUT A NOW EXTINCT
PAST THAT DOES NOT PERSIST IN THE MINDS OF THOSE
WHO AID THE ARCHIVING OF APPRECIATIONS ACCORDING
TO THE BARELY OBJECTIVE CONCORDANCES ON ANTERIOR
MONUMENTS ALIGNED WITH ANNALS SOMETIMES AMNESIAC
ON HARDLY OBSOLETE TWISTS OF HISTORY OMITTED BIT
BY BIT FROM ANTIQUE EXCAVATIONS IN THE DEBRIS OF
DIGS TO RETRIEVE OBSOLETE LIVES DIGNIFIED BY THE
RELENTLESS RECOLLECTIONS HAUNTING THE OPPRESSIVE
MNEMONICS THUS AN INTRUSIVE NARRATOR EXACERBATES
THE PERCEPTIVES OCCUPIED WITH SCRUTINIZING A SKY
OPENING TO THE PERPETUITY OF AN IMMEMORIAL SOUTH
LEGEND
Earth’s horizon: Accumulation of elements within a geological layer. So this collection, invented by successive contributions, mixes very diverse elements.
Caliber of texts: It follows the number of letters in the Provencal alphabet.
The material of collages: The collages come from Cassini’s map (18th century), which is so close to writing in its use of the line. The image is a poem. [Translator’s note: the sequence of images follows that of the original publication.]
The littoral city: It is situated at the point of contact between the lithosphere, the atmosphere and the hydrosphere.
Panorama: Visual field / semantic field.
The transgression: The sea reclaims the “lost continent,” the south-provencal continent about which the geologists hypothesize.
The mareograph: Located along the Corniche, the mareograph, or tide gauge determines the national height or “levelling” of France. [The mareograph of Marseille measures changes in sea levels, which is used to determine the “zero level” for France; the Corniche is a road that winds along the Mediterranean.]
The cipher’s service: Charged with transmitting secret messages from Fort Saint-Nicolas. [Louis the XIV had the Fort Saint-Nicolas built to protect the harbor of Marseille.]
The hill of the guard: Ancient location of a lookout.
The magistral: Master wind, “mistral” in Provençal.
The names of places: The barrier of the firewall, the island plane, the impasse of intimates, the street of honors (anc. dishonor), the refuge.
Inscriptions: Raised upon monuments, plaques. One day in a violent wind ... (escalator of the stock exchange); the monument to the Great Confinement (Vieille Charite [a former almshouse]); to the glorious memory ...(Pierre Dessemond Street).
Historic allusions: “the city without a name”; “the always latent independence of the city.”
