^* This is not quite the call to heterogeneous profusion that it might seem, however. The origin may be immediate rather than remote, but its immediacy always threatens to engorge us in our own appetites. This is readily apparent in the continuous appeals to originality, freshness, the unprecedented, and the new in commercial advertising. So the work of maturity (not a term Foucault would use) is to go beyond this immediate apprehension of origin to the recognition of origin (and its immediacy) as mediated.