It is almost sunrise on Harris Creek, a hint of orange rising from the ink. The parents are the development of the child, an unfolding of what lay hidden in childish experience, a realization of that experience. The alchemist develops into the chemist; reality is what becomes of magic. What develops is, in time, enveloped, refolded, unrealized. Is the child the father of the man?

With conception the clock starts ticking, the development begins. Originally the child and parent constitute a "genuine two-in-one", the parental body containing the body of the child. Implied in this situation is the separation of the body of the child from that of the parent. It is birth, or, the separation of the child and the parent that introduces the reality principle. Mom and Dad speak for the real world; they were really already out there in it before I was born into it.

What God has separated, let no man join except by means of a legal fiction. It is the separation that resolves the ambiguity of the hemaphroditic pre-natal body of experience. The child cannot return to the womb, the mother cannot gather the child back in, and so the "separation situation" is the situation until death do them ... ?