The crack is akin to the wound -- the mark of the event, but also its boundary, the frontier. (155)
Fitzgerald writes of the analogy between the crack-up and the Grand Canyon. And that is exactly the point, that the structure of the event, the doubling, is such that the incorporeal (Fitzgerald's cracked-ness) is double-bound to this material crack within the earth. Every event is double in just this way, the material and the incorporeal. We see ourselves within the world of signs, and the world realizes itself in us.
The structure of the assemblage/gyre: "The present has become a circle of crystal or granite, formed about a soft core, a core of lava, of liquid or viscous gas." (158)
Thought occurs at the locus of the crack. (160)
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