mana is a primitive abstraction, probably
more primitive than numbers, for example,
but no more supernatural.
memory, educating itself, constructs a series
of the major relational events
and the elementary upheavals.
what is most important for the drive
for knowledge, namely, that 
which is active and effective, stands out
most clearly and gains independence,
while the less important, that which is not shared,
the changeful you of the experiences, recedes,
remains isolated in memory, gradually
becomes an object and even more gradually
gets arranged in groups and species.
but the third element, gruesomely detached 
and at times spookier than the dead and the moon,
becomes more and more inexorably clear until
finally the other partner that always remains the same
emerges: i.


i and thou