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A one-line proposition that defines transcendence as passage beyond illusion, not beyond reality itself.

The sentence resists mystical escapism. It insists that spiritual or imaginative ascent should strip away false appearances without abandoning the real world that gives the struggle its stakes.

'Magical Margin': single-sentence poem, transcendence as going beyond illusion, not reality.

The sentence's weight sits on the colon — the poem is willing to define transcendence negatively. The choice to say 'not reality' refuses the lazy mystical reading. Printing this as a whole page gives the claim room to ring, which is the book's recurring format argument.