we’d like to lock whatever elements there are in books. looks might deceive but also attract: we’re trying to find the knot where polysemy becomes perceptible, ambiguity felt, bifurcation an option and not for the sake of making of that plurality the rule of the real but of making of that plurality. this too, the omission of a punctuation mark, of a verb, of a link, signals elements. the mind thrives in predicative objects and null copulas. the first sign of there being something (there), in an assertoric way—of there needing to be something—is its absence: the physical element is not there though its function is. see this:
we said yes, he no, they sure, she no when asked if else was needed while being, me, home, he working, they dancing, she walking…
let’s keep in mind that when an omission is brought to our attention, the underlying system that the functionality of discrete elements reveals as the layer our understanding attends to, tells us that the elements we are talking about (anything; letters, atoms, numbers, matter—for all that matters) operate at a level of our perception, they are building blocks we create to organize our perceiving; they are posterior, ontic. now the particularity of a book is that it creates elements. each of them’s a glossary one goes to to find things to do something else with.
once seen, because these elements, as well as the books, are for our eyes first, we trace down the space that is many –in which it becomes perceptible– to a conceptual previous space, that is, an element, always inexistant but perceptible. so it’s not about (the) elements in books but about elements (put) in books.
as a last note on this we’ll insist that elements are not basic things but signs, which here means signals: pointing in a direction, there and where they protract a provenience; things come from nowhere but more often than not they arise from somewhere. elements are not building blocks that show how to build forward, but elements that resume a flow status that signals inwards to layers of understanding. they are not meant to build with but to un-build—to decreate new components, new units that could, in a hypothetical, nonexistent time, move otherwise, that could have built elements other than the ones we’ve got and consider, in balance with chance.
here’re elements we put in these books:
air is the medium