Abstract

Here, I offer instances of lightness, darkness, and striation, the progressive action of digression, self-interruption so as purposely to block and frustrate the linear process of thought, to press against the limiting agency of written language, to live inside the thickness of the line. To perform an object ontology that slips the bonds of epistemological hinge beliefs. To identify the Project that exceeds the Book, as is the case in Heidegger and Roubaud. Flipped and missing pages, black and marbled pages. Stage presence and temporal presencing—the “now” versus the “always already” (in Heidegger). Close readings of particular pages in Sterne, Robbe-Grillet, and Roubaud in keeping with the Heideggerian theme of unconcealment, of things organically coming into presence rather than merely being revealed.