ABSTRACT
In Donne's texts things continually threaten to move out of any possible 'proper' place, or even lack such a place to begin with. This is of relevance to another change in human consciousness, which came with the advent of print culture. The hypocrisis is wound up with the fact of duplicitous, shadowy, representations of an origin which is not in fact there. Yet the desire for representation and its implicit corollary, repetition, are axiomatic to the text. Any repetition of the breathy inspiration with it hypocrisis as an inevitable corollary and, by implication of that, the separation and failure of the two lovers. Their relation becomes, by definition almost, duplicitous and hypocritical, demanding separation or parting. In the fact of self-consciousness then, such in Satire, the breath or utterance or representation of the self can be, hypocritical. Hypocrisis such as this is axiomatic to Donne's mode of representation in writing.
