Unrecurable

An vnrecurable dyshonoure were yt vnto yow, from hens fourth to be led blynde felde of these bushardes in the darke.

Now is he gone fourth, into the desart place, / With the holy Ghost, hys offyce to begynne. / Where Sathan the deuyll, with hys assaultes apace, / With colours of craft, and manye a subtyle gynne, / Wyll vndermynde hym, yet nothynge shall he wynne, / But shame and rebuke, in the conclusyon fynall, / Thys tokenneth our rayse, and hys vnrecurable fall.

Is any sorow remēbred by wryting / Vnto my sorouful sighes comparable? / Or was there euer creature lyuyng / That felt of dole a thinge more lamentable? / For confortlesse and vnrecurable / Are thilke heaped sorowes full of rage, / Which haue with wo oppressed my corrage.

[…]: nowe if this remedie helpe not surely thou art vnrecurable, if also thy newe breath happen to be as stinking as thy olde, thou wilt neuer haue a sweete breath in this worlde nor then neither.

[…]some diseases that are desperate: among which sort since mine is vnrecurable, I greeue to discouer it, knowing this, that all the Eloborus of Anticira, al the drugs, of India, all the gold in Ganges, cannot purge one dram of my melancholy, pacifie one fit of my feuor, nor buy me one ownce of content?

But howsoeuer, euer this is true, / You both repented what you vndertooke, / Thorough your eyes into your bossomes flew / VVounds vnrecurable: oft in your looke / VVhen paynted smiles lay publique in our view, / VVe might behold how much your ioyes forsooke, / Your vndisguised harts; for they sayd still, / The waking heauens will plague the sleeping ill.

But (said she) I was in good hope he would haue become a new man, being loth to bewray his soilie vnto you, because you made so great account of him, thinking he would (neuer) haue borre so bad a minde towards you. But now I see this sore to be vnrecurable, I know not what to say, but onely to craue pardon of you for the same, and withall, to take some order for my buriall.

The complexity of postcolonial theories of identity may be understood in terms of the spati-temporal location of identity as an unrecurable and irreversible discursive and material artifact located in the ever-unfolding temporal “beyond” and in aesthetic and performative terms as hybrid or syncretic identities (Anzaldua, 1987; Bhabha, 1994; Hall, 1990; Spivak, 1985). The notion of an unrecurable identity is articulated by Spivak through the temporal trope “always, already.”