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Fragment ID: 20328

And driven by a pointing hand of Light

Across his soul’s unmapped immensitudes.1

I take upon myself the right to coin new words. “Immensitudes” is not any more fantastic than “infinitudes” to pair “infinity”.

[“Would you also use ‘eternitudes’?”] Not likely! I would think of the French eternuer and sneeze.

1936

 

1 P. 80. The word “immensitude” occurs also on pp. 237 and 524;

A little gift comes from the Immensitudes...

In their immensitude signing infinity...

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