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trahere

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A trace was one of two straps, chains or lines of a harness for attaching a horse to a vehicle, and the word comes via Old French from the Latin word tractus, which is the past participle of the verb trahere 'to pull or to draw.
As his title suggests, Ellrodt focuses his study on the seven writers traditionally referred to as the "metaphysicals": John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Edward Herbert, and Thomas Trahere.
trahere, I would propose (according to the logic of the trace, of the graphematic) first that trahere draws drawing, that it attracts and at the same time retracts, contracts, subtracts, extracts, distracts, and does so to and from, with and against, all of its traits at the same time--traits of traction, attraction, extraction, tension and delineation.
 
 
 
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