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Khora (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a matrix, womb or receptacle that is never and nowhere offered up in the form of presence.

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The Khora (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the mother of the cosmos: she receives all things yet never takes the form of anything that enters her.

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The Khora (n.) wherein ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠things come to be must proffer no look of its own, or it would mar every form it receives by showing its own face as well.

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Khora (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠known by analogy, by bastard thinking — the receptacle: the knower becomes a son out of wedlock, dispossessed of the paternal line.

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The Khora (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Plato's word for the difference between beings and Being: they are in different places — and the duality itself, which makes this placement possible, never receives attention.