INHERITANCE you are heir to a hidden philosophy to which you owe your life whether or not you ever understood it from its arguments follow all your actions its system is the secret history of your life and the distant articulation of its logic is the ringing in your ears you comprehend only the common tongue not its labyrinth of entwined sentences but being its prime example you have no need to know it everywhere you are there it is anything you wish or imagine is a conclusion it reached long ago you are its archive and its outcome every hair on your head was foreseen that is why you are its heir even your rejection of it was predicted and is in fact what it demands of you so that it can go into hiding again concealed in the grammar of your refusal