m2,1, pt. 1 (trace)

Yet another extraordinary passage. The trace inhabits the same line of progression as m1a,5: war—adventure—fate/total experience, but seems to be a further advance, a pulling back from the total to the power of partial experience. But as with m1a,6 we are engaged with how, as footnote 5 states, tradition can be translated into the language of shock, or how "there comes into play the peculiar configuration by dint of which long experience appears translated into the language of immediate experience." This is where the trace leads, or, that is, this experience is that of following the trace, as if on a hunt. This experience incorporates both that of the worker and that of the idler, such that with this passage idleness is defined as a component of work, as containing it. That said, this is an attenuated version of work, or of work as we've known it, so that this version of experience appears to have "no sequence and no system." In fact it is a "product of chance" and has an "essential interminability."