1. Simplicity and complexity are the extreme ends of the world, reiterated on varying levels and scales, so that what is simple from one perspective becomes complex when approached from another. They are not actual opposites, since we all know that complexity can be born from simple conditions, and simplicity can become the outcome of complex processes.
2. Reading begins, and ends, in mystery. In divination, the borderline between language and thing breaks down. Anything has the potential to become a medium and a message. Anything has the potential to be read. However, by going beyond science and beyond art, divination is condemned to suffer the greatest of skepticism and ambiguity. There is no legitimacy in it, since the mixture of subjectivity and accident is the direct opposite of the laws of method and the method of laws. The only interest one can have in it is the way it dissolves the divide between language and non-language, or between the known and the unknown. Where anything has the potential to speak, everything unknown becomes a language, and every language becomes an unknown.
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