These were the connectives: to bind and yet not be bound to carry out what is stated intentionally; to implement a recursive strategy as an incursion into the master program, inventing a subroutine that doubles back on the system and changes it. Not to invent but to use a product of that system as the differential against its own assimilation back into the same, because what has been absorbed will reprogram that system. The system will no longer be the same. Chance wills procedures. Inflecting dead ends in order to deflect the program toward other meanings. Not just thinking through the cracks, but a way of cracking through what thinks. Metaphor is the means, the carrier that insinuates uncertainties into previously abandoned genealogical lines. New eye teeth are selected to assimilate different prey. Thatched huts become plural domes. Nomadic plumes of smoke unfurl from nom de plumes. A gnomic nomenclature rattles back ceaselessly to the brute beating of beginnings and ends. The means of meaning make one think the meanings. The literal glut of the polyglot is the white noise of white mythology.