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Diaphane, Adiaphane

Submitted by Kurt Lindblom on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 14:51

At the beginning of the Proteus chapter of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus uses the phrases "diaphane" and "adiaphane" to describe the phenonoma of the visual world.

Borrowing from Aristotle, Stephen imagines the diaphane to be the transparent veil of the visual world.

But if the diaphane is transparent, he thinks, then there must be its opposite--the adiaphane--on the other side. That is, if you can literally put your fingers through it ("If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate"), then it could also be seen figuratively as a doorway to another world ("if not a door").

Stephen experiments with this by closing his eyes and walking for a few steps without sight ("Shut your eyes and see.")

Of course there is a pun here with the word "see." It reminds me of that corny joke:

"I see, said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw."
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