It is not hard, following the clues in grammar and once one has seen the trick performed elsewhere, to find seams or splits in the structure of consciousness such as are normally concealed behind its definitive singleness and simplicity. These can arise in temporal or spatial dimensions, but also in more abstract dimensions such as the conative, causal and inter-subjective - even to attempt to name them is to suggest new ones. But a split in consciousness is not merely a distinction, it is a dialectical complex with a peculiar knotted topology which can neither be resolved not even properly pictured; it is re-entrant, but it returns or reflects back to itself with a twist or modification that is no less complex than the entire structure itself. In other words, the identical knottedness exists in the meta-structure as in the structure, and so on as far as one can go - since what is being modeled is nothing but this very meta-. It is quite possible that none of this has anything to do with consciousness, which is in fact so utterly single and simple that it entirely escapes notice, the resulting forms are not even what fascinates and lures it. Consciousness is not fascinated by anything, but these structures of mind believing that they have lured consciousness merely strive to fascinate themselves. Be that as it may, a lot of ink is spilled elaborating these notions with more or less skill and audacity and for a variety of ends. What they have in common seems to be the idea of trying to alter a system in which one is always already compromised, in fact a system in which one is helplessly subsumed and from which the only hope of escape arises not from an original will to freedom but from the necessary incompleteness or better, the failed completeness, hardly subtle, of the system itself.