“The Pebble” (excerpt)
by Francis Ponge
How would I define pebble?
It’s a bit tricky,
but if I were to start by the way of description,
I should say that pebble is something somewhere between rock and
stone.
The obvious defect of my definition is that I can’t stop there:
I have to continue defining stones and rocks all the way back to the
flood
and perhaps even further than that