'alembic' in Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 | Bookmarker

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(noun) an apparatus used in distillation / (noun) something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation (from alchemy)

He insists that Paracelsus burn the rose and make it rise from the ashes, whether with alembics or with the Word.

—p.188 by Roberto Bolaño

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