Many opinions are passant concerning the basilisk, or little king of serpents, commonly called the cockatrice ….

Her hand ached and she looked down to see an ugly scar stretching across the ball of her thumb. It was already old and long since mishealed.

As he awaited the third series of electroshocks in late October 1943, Artaud recalled the accident to Ferdière: 'The electroshock therapy has caused me to suffer terribly, and I beg you to spare me another suffering.'

Nominal declensions, verbal case endings, gerundival constructions, in short, the full range of grammatical alterations—for which Sanskrit has a particular genius and meticulous order—announce language itself as a field of alterity.