...they are so many fragments of something that has always been already read, seen, done, experienced; the code is the wake of that already (Roland Barthes, "S/Z," 20).

This implies reading what comes "after," "before," and what comes "before," "after."

A return is generally a going back; yet in this case the detour was already a going back, so that the return is a coming forward once again. The encounter with the mirror reversed my direction, as mirrors tend to do. What I saw in the "looking-glass phase" rather seriously calls into question any sense of progression or regression in relation to movement through time.

This implies reading what comes "after," "before," and what comes "before," "after."