formed. This is the history of the phrase, and intentionality of a limited sort is to be pursued there. We also need to pay attention to what follows on from the phrase, what it makes happen. This might be called the ethical dimension in a way, the phrase's eventhood. Phrase one is the author function and phrase three the reader function. Lineation is not quite the same as phrase and sentence in this regard. Phrases are separated by space and semiotic marking, as too are sentences, but it is the semiotic excessiveness of lineation that allows for Agamben's definition of the base condition of the poetic.  Lines insert false time (Ibid. 00)  This is another sentence. Space is the same in all directions (Ibid. 00)  Margin types its own form. Each sentence is a test (Ibid. 00)  Earlier sentences, our old friend. (Ibid. 00)  The space was the last letter of the alphabet to be invented (Ibid. 00-0)