So Patrick's given us a sort of mise-en-abyme, with the word
"cartouche" standing in as an undeciphered signifier that is also the
name of the key to a cipher...the poem's ostensible naivete concealing
a dizzyingly subtle and self-referential allegory of reading...?
Well, he did predict twitting and trilling, and who am I to refuse? Twit twit.
Dominic
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