Eine Klage-Welt

Only where there is language is there world.
--Martin Heidegger

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The word that fits would mime the genesis.
--Michel Deguy

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... that a whole world of lament arose, in which
all nature reappeared: forest and valley,
road and village, field and stream and animal;
and that around this lament-world, even as
around the other earth, a sun revolved
and a silent, star-filled heaven, a lament-
heaven, with its own, disfigured stars ...

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