from Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus

Signe Gjessing

3.                        

The world is
imported.

 

3.01                   

The world is a good
alternative to certainty.



3.012                 

The world has been allowed
to sit and watch from one side
of the balance. The world
is not supposed to shift
the balance, it should
just watch.                     



3.02                   

Is it completely intentional
that the universe has not
led roads to the stars?              

 

3.03                   

The universe always
shows up at the last
minute, right before
universality gives up.

 

3.031  
               
And always with some
kind of new scent.

 

3.1                      

The world is accentuated
by the drops
as an example.
Which ecstasies?
The world, e.g.

 

3.2                      

Glimpses of the world
are the beyond that
stop while the going
is good.

 

3.3                      

The world is formalities.

 

3.31                   

If we don’t uphold form-
alities—such as thinking
about the light—then we are
beyond.

 

3.311                 

As for the world, it is 
done with forgetting.

 

3.4                      

Great demands are put
on the world’s trans-
cendence: The world
has to disappear from
there not here.

                            

3.41                   

The world has its
beginning to thank
for its elusiveness.
 
 

3.411                

The world’s creation
is followed up with very
different initiatives.

 

3.5                      

The world is a mild
regret over actions.

 

3.51                   

The actions
are beyond.

 

3.511                 

The answer to the be-
yond must read: Yes,
but also there.



3.5111              

Transcendence:
Holding a space for
the world in infinitely
many places.

 

3.6                      

The world exports
a shampoo based on
stars and longing.

 

3.61                   

Distance has lost
its grip on the
cosmic: Meanwhile
the migrating
world sends stars
out every day.

 

3.7                      

The beyond follows
us and holds up the
world like a bridal
veil: Avant-garde.



3.71   
                
The world’s light-
ness is not the same
as its ecstasy.

 

3.711 
                
The world weighs
less than my
problems.

 

3.7111               

But a universe and
universality use
the same size idea.

 

3.8                      

The world’s race is an
extra loop.

 

3.81    
               
After the universe,
Everything is fresh.

 

3.82                   

The length repeats
the universe for those
slow-witted mountains:
Travelling.

 

3.9                      

Of and with the uni-
verse I exist.

 

3.91   
                
The universe always has
swimsuit stars on. Just in
case.

 

3.92                   

The universe in fact
helps the everything
with extra water and
roses.

 

3.10                   

We call out using the
universe’s son-name.

 

3.11                   

The universe joins
the silk team.



3.12                   

The world is a collective
name for the world-
inducers who
wander off.

 

3.121                 

The world is only the
curious among the
world-inducers.



3.1211               

The world’s visits out
and about are symbolic.

 

3.12111            

The world’s visits out
and about drag on so
that the roses take off.

           

3.121111          

Worlds are roses in
a children’s edition.

 

3.12112            

The worlds find
their natural bearings
after being all the way
out.                     

translated from the Danish by Denise Newman