31 Q.v. in this respect:
After he knew that he had fallen, outward & down, away from the Fullness, he tried to remember what the Fullness had been….
He did remember, but found he was silent, & could not tell others.
He wanted to tell others that she leapt farthest forward & fell into a Passion apart from his embrace.
She was in great agony, & would have been swallowed up by the sweetness, had she not reached a limit, & stopped.
But the Passion went on without her, & passed beyond the limit.
Sometimes he thought he was about to speak, but the silence continued.
He wished to say: strengthless & female fruit.
—w/emphasis supplied, from Valentinus’s AD 199 Pleroma, part of the Neo-Platonic Gnosticism that functions as a metaphysical counterpoint to the anti-idealism of the Tractatus, & signals nicely Markson’s artistic ambivalence about whether Kate’s bind is ultimately Hellenic or Evian.