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The Earth’s Horizons: Panorama

An observer limits her point of view to the line

Michèle Métail

September 6, 2007

An observer limits her point of view to the line

OF A FOLD BORN FROM TORSIONS OF A GEOLOGICAL AGE TOO ANCIENT TO RESIST THE TRANSITIVE EARTHQUAKES CAUSING PLATES TO TREMBLE UNTIL INVASIVE UPLIFTS RESIST PRESSURES FROM A TERRAIN VERY TERRESTRIAL OF CRUST WHOSE SMOOTH BENDING STRETCH FORCES THE DOME OF THE BOW INTO AN INFLECTION AND GLACIALLY SUPERPOSES THE MOTIONS OF ARCHING AS THE REVERSE STRATIFICATION MOVEMENTS OF INTERLACING ELEMENTS BIND THE INCONSTANT AGGLUTINATES INTO DISCORDANT DEPOSITS UNDER LATERAL PRESSURE IN THE TORMENTED ZONE OF STRIATIONS IN WEIGHTY LAYERS OF REPLICAS AND FLOOD WAVE-CUT PLATFORMS THAT ACCENTUATE THE FLEXURE WITHOUT BREAKING ITS LAYERS CONSOLIDATED AT THE BASE BY A PROFUSION OF INVISIBLE ORGANICS THAT INSUBSTANTIAL AND TRANSITIVE PROJECTIONS OF TURBULENCES CONCENTRATE IN SOMBER FRAGMENTS THAT DETACH UPON CONTACT WITH THE CRYSTALLIZATIONS OF THE DIVIDED GLOBE THAT THE SLOW START DISMANTLED CAUSING SUFFERING THROUGH FAST TRANSLATION AFTER TEMPORARY FLUCTUATIONS AFFECTED BY UNPREDICTABLE DEFORMATIONS WHOSE CRASHINGS CEASE JUST WHEN THE PEACEFUL SIMULACRUM OF A REMISSION COMMENCES NOT LIKE YESTERDAY WHEN EQUILIBRIUMS RUPTURED AT THE ABANDONED SPACE IN A DARK FRACTURE OF ITS PLINTH

(translated from the French by Marcella Durand)

Michèle Métail


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