dark mirrors (aragon)

Man caught in the snare of stars. He fancied himself a creature determined by twists of fate and by the passage of time. His senses, his mind, his chimeras: he paused for reflection only long enough to co-ordinate and pursue ideas he had had to begin with, cataloguing them, from A to Z, like a bird living in the palm of a hand. He expected his coherence, his conclusion, to emerge from himself. He organized himself around the sequences of his destiny. He confronted and followed himself: he was his own shadow, an hypothesis and its exposition.
- page 117, Le Paysan de Paris, Louis Aragon