The repetition of this opening has always felt like loop de loops to me, or like a basic sine wave--movement that returns (home?, for the reader at least). Hopefully, this ties in with the isomorphism talk in other annotations. Does the repetition of the early morning indicate simultaneity or new days? It's getting caught between these temporalities that leads me to thinking about a waveform. I think about how sound waves could keep a constant pitch but still be moving. It helps me begin to conceptualize how harmonious Césaire's paradoxes and ironies are here.

There is too something here relating to jazz, the way so much variety can happen in a song before returning to the head/melody of the piece. Reading Notes feels much like a jazz tune to me in this way, where we can get pretty far out, and yet return to the comfort of the same melody, only it sounds a bit different this time with all that's come before. In the spirit of thinking of relevant post-production sources, I think we could think about the kind of sampling that is done in hip hop as well. And maybe the kind of expansive take of/on sampling done by Weheliye's Phonographies.

Excited to hear others' thoughts on this!

Perhaps a bit of a stretch but the repetition of j'accepte here always reminded me of Zola's "J'Accuse…!" and its repetitions. Beyond the sonic similarity, I've found some generatively in thinking of the similarities and differences in the responses to oppression