# Aristotle on Transparency **Opening (not a real abstract):** INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color the sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. I f you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see. James Joyce, Ulysses **Authors:** [[Mark Eli Kalderon]]