Yet, the interest in the room as principal universe of the writer is not uniquely confined to Paul Valery's early poetry but it is strongly reflective of the later years as well.
In fact, the Cahiers make repeated reference to this self-contained and autonomous realm for the writing self, as in this text from May 1929 that typifies the relationship between the mind, the eye and the immediate contiguous space surrounding the writer:
" 'Univers' - ensemble des choses qui sont dans une chambre + le regard 'circulaire' qui les parcourt plus vite qu'elles ne changent sensiblement" (C, XIII, 752).
