The norm has no distinctive features. It is a singular space located between the fool and the madman. Explosion, too, has no distinctive features, or to be more exact, possesses a whole range of possible features. In the case of individual behaviour, it distances itself from the norm and in such a case represents itself as folly; translated into mass culture, it becomes a form of stupidity.
For human thought all that exists is that which falls into any of its languages. Thus, for instance, purely physiological processes such as sexual contact or the impact of alcohol on the organism represent physical and physiological realities. But it is precisely these examples which manifest an essential law: the more distant by its very nature this or that domain is from the sphere of culture, the more effort is applied to introduce it into this sphere.
Repetition of one and the same text by no means suggests, however, that one will obtain no information. Rereading the newspaper makes little sense because we expect to generate new information from the text which comes to us from outside of the text. However, in cases where we listen to one and the same recording repeatedly what changes is not that which is transferred but that which is received.
