25 The future editor should note here the fault of the present editor for selecting the photographs from the wrong box. Photograph 34 is unthinkable in that she never had children; photograph 12 is also bogus because in any event, the engagement ring is on the wrong finger; photograph 56 is dated three years before her birth; photograph 108 shows her happy; as she never looked anyone in the eye, photograph 9 must be compiled from one of the other possible lives, because she wouldn't ever think of looking a camera lens in the eye; this goes on to infinity.
26 "But a trace in the strict sense disturbs the order of the world. It occurs by overprinting. Its original signifyingness is sketched out in, for example, the fingerprints left by someone who wanted to wipe away his traces and commit a perfect crime."
27 Ibid., conclusion.
28.333 Translator's Note.-This sentence in the original is obviously meant to illustrate the fault of which it speaks. It does so by the use of a construction very common in the original *, but happily unknown in translation **; where, however, the fault itself exists nonetheless, though in different form.
* original as in this life.
** translation as in the next.
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