As the pivot of the N in «Nature» in the first line of the poem does not obstruct the eyelet, it is impossible to use the notion of the pivot alone to define every figure of speech which occurs in a concrete way within a group of significances, and so many of the relationships linking thought with the material marks used to record it must be re-examined. First of all, meaning and sign should be seen as partially interdependent. We also consider that any elementary significance has a meaning, represented by a word or symbol, for a considerable length of time, within a community [905]-[906]. A text, with its various additions, whether physical or mental, is called a heap, and the notion of the rail must be widened to include the notion of heaps, whether real or invented. Any sign or meaning which is permanently in the heap, whether an idea, a symbol, a word, a support or a freestone, is called a shard. Its existence in no way depends on fugitive circumstances, unlike the unintentional grimace of an actor which will not be present in a later performance of the same play. The shard may or may not break the eyelet. The use of capital letters, A, E, H… is extended to the shards. A crucible is a heap the main significance of which, called the thread, is at least roughly apparent. Such a crude assessment of ideas would become impossible if the flow of the discourse were constantly interrupted by certain decisive but irrational expressions, such as a long series of cries without prior meditation, caused by such great pain that any internalization was impossible. A wad can be summarized as two things found in some crucibles: a shard hindering the eyelet, or a pivot. Any crucible with a thread that can be delivered just by freestones, terms or pivots is called a crib. A verbal example of this is given by the whole sonnet „Correspondences“, since it has this kind of thread. Conversely, if a group of sounds includes a sequence of musical notes of great force, mingling in with the compartments, it could not be described as a crib. A rep in a crib is a wad desired by the creator and not obtained using any common poetic device such as assonance, metre, accent or rhyme. The heap before the intrusion of the rep is its tumulus and the idea of the rep is given the symbol (-¦¦¦¦-).
In this way “a bang was heard” can be written (bang-¦¦¦¦-explosion) and “she lived in a little ⌂” enables us to write (⌂-¦¦¦¦-hut), but the segment “he ¤∆ offers ⌂ in less ☼±√” does not allow a proper rep.
The marks of the freestones only constitute this type of object once they are multiplied in a comical way. Baudelaire sent many notes to his editor, enjoining him to take great care with the typography for his works but his usage was not idiosyncratic [646]: «As for my punctuation, remember that it serves not only to note the meaning but also "the declamation".»