OPENING

I'll be opening this mediation (*) by questioning the very possibility of opening a certain type, or set, of questions --
questions that I will want to pressure in order that I might arrive at a kind of writing that may itself remain open.

Perhaps, then, this opening will require that I find the proper key with which (or shall I say, in which?) to begin.

In the beginning, then, I will already have been playing my first variation by calling attention to the word.

A keyword if you will.

A word that, at the beginning, is the key, a key, registers a key that will set the tone for what follows.

But now I will stop ... or pause ... or rest