Veils suspends sexual distinction among homonyms: la voile (sail) and le voile (veil). an entire background of sexual distinction is enveloped, occasionally dissimulated here—in the folds of sails and veils and within the turns, trips, and returns in their metaphors and metonymies.
However international to one another they could seem, in spite of the fact that self sustaining they're, the 2 texts perform a standard style: autobiography, confession, memoirs. the longer term additionally enters in: via establishing to one another, the 2 discourses confide what's approximately to take place, the imminence of an occasion missing any universal degree with them or with the rest, an operation that restores sight and plunges into mourning the data of the former evening, a "verdict" whose threatening mystery continues to be out of succeed in via our knowledge.
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