I is for Icon as when, in appeal to the self’s ranging
selfishness, something’s iconic. The Fairfield paper mills have been demolished
and are now surrounded by hoardings: “Iconic residences coming soon.” Can
something be iconic that hasn’t been made? They haven’t even laid the
infrastructure. Theologians say the universe is an icon of that which (or who,
being human) made it. But the universe is a given, not a promise. J is for Job,
for example making an icon. This may start some February and never be
completed. It’s the I in unpossessive relationship to the I of divinity.
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