the argument

Noticeably affected by erosion, positioned on the floor in most straight rectilinearity, the first of the scaffolding supports, disposito, which gives access and meaning to inventio, the second of the five canons of classical rhetoric, the occupied space inside the cavity of the cranium, the indispensable, the thought process forming and developing the argument of the concept.

Following inventio, the second structuring pole, elocutio, then to speak, to speak in the correct deployment of words and phrases defined by the clarity of meaning, those marked by correctness, appropriateness, without ambiguity, but splendid in constrained ornamentation, salient, unusual, focusing on balance abetting memoria, the fourth, the discipline of recall, while its cold steel body diagonally, or otherwise, pierces the vastest of space with efficacious persuasion, the space enclosed and measurable in height, length, width and depth. The immeasurable space of the silence, and that of the voice. The positive space, the negative space defining the forehead, the nose, the prominent thyroid cartilage and chin. The space the room the void, pronuntiatio, the container for unimpaired deliverance. The tomb of the work, its severity, the austerity instigating the familiar pulse of quickened blood and swelling veins ...

the argument. 2021