A sound conception causes quotations and objects to summon one another
Evidence
Properly written texts are like spiders’ webs: tight, concentric, transparent, well-spun and firm. They draw into themselves all the creatures of the air. Metaphors flitting hastily through them become their nourishing prey. Subject matter comes winging towards them. The soundness of a conception can be judged by whether it causes one quotation to summon another. Where thought has opened up one cell of reality, it should, without violence by the subject, penetrate the next. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 101
Categorization
- XREF: Constellation theory in nuce — the spider’s web as the image of the constellation method from Negative Dialectics. — connects to: Arabic classical prose generates meaning through chains of sound-resemblance; Word identity and meaning are effects of paradoxical sameness within repetition.