Length Withought Breath

• length without breadth: Euclid, Elements, Book 1, Definition 2: "A line is length without breadth (Γραμμη δε μηκος απλατες)

• World without end, Amen: the closing words of the prayer Gloria Patri ("Glory Be to the Father")

• thought

• breath → length without breath suggests the corpse of HCE laid out lengthwise, breathless → hence the allusion to death (Tod) in the margin