Chapter 9: The Bathtub

In these pages, Demeter vivdly portrays himself in his bathtub as "buried up to [his] armpits" in notes, books, and envelopes—all constituting "the problem of fragments and the absence of order"; the published text instead describes Demeter's male body (pen/is) finding the fragments he seeks. On page 298, Kroetsch's annotations reveal his decision to have Demeter explicitly order three notes.