remove from it its old form and impose upon it a new one.

     It may be a mistake for Poulet or anybody else to see in 
this new strategy of Montaigne some extraordinarily profound 
discovery of enterprise. But just as the infinitesimal calculus 
was devised to translate non-visual experience into 
homogeneous visual terms, so Montaigne’s seizing the 
imperceptible instant or facet, as “diversely and imperceptibly 
our soul darts out her passions,” is entering “the home of what 
Leibniz was later to call the infinitely small entities. . . . It is a 
wager to attempt to ‘choose and lay hold of so many nimble 
little motions’. . . . Thus the self is dissolved not only from 
instant to instant but even in the middle of the instant-
passage, in a prismatic play like that of a spray of water.” (98)

     What is being presented here is identical with the