The task of the demanding reader consists in overturning this natural tendency of the book, so that it may present itself in its entirety to the mind’s scrutiny. The only complete reading is the one which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relationships: it is then that surprises emerge” (p. xiii). (What surprises? How can simul- taneity hold surprises in store? Rather, it neutralizes the surprises of nonsimultaneity. Surprises emerge from the dialogue between the simultaneous and the nonsimultaneous. Which suffices to say that structural simultaneity itself serves to reassure.)