^* “What is closed? What is open? What is a connective path? What is a tear? What are the continuous and the discontinuous? What is a threshold, a limit?” asks Michel Serres (Hermes, 44), soliciting guidance by way of Oedipus and the Sphinx. “Thus everything is repeated, enigma and knowledge, on the road to Thebes and the road to Delphi, catastrophe and passage, tear and connection” (47).