 a sign relation and to shift
its momentum into a flow of semiosis that is almost nearly orthogonal
to its initial direction toward objects and apparently independent of
its intended orientation toward the world.  It is as if the air masses
that are originally impelled for the purpose of conveying their charge
of signs from the equatorial regions of signs and ideas to the polar
regions of objects in the world were to become diverted almost nearly
perpetually into the prevailing winds of our perennial philos