The Vagueness of Difference: You, The Reader and the Dream of Gravity's Rainbow (Critical Essay‪)‬

Is there anything To be serious about beyond this otherness That gets included in the most ordinary Forms of daily activity, changing everything Slightly and profoundly, and tearing the matter Of creation, any creation, not just artistic creation Out of our hands, to install it on some monstrous, near Peak, too close to ignore, too far For one to intervene? --John Ashbery, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" (II 467-75)