dramatis personae for an island narrative: pornography of the human condition 1
Who would they be these characters asked for in the post below, an island narrative, if not exactly those projections who are not projections of ourselves? as Robert David MacDonald has Diaghilev say in Chinchilla, Seen as they should be seen, under arc-lamps; objects of a desire they master
the sufficient exercise of the clearing
There is too much self in my writing. Do you know the term Lukacs uses to describe aesthetic structure? Eine fensterlose Monade. I do not want to be a windowless monad – my training and trainers opposed subjectivity strongly, I have struggled since the beginning to drive my thought out into
die tausend Finsternisse todbringender Rede
There is the conversation I can’t have This is the conversation I can’t have I live the conversation I can’t have ~
an island narrative
The horizon of what is known extends far out beyond what is seen. But there is still doubt about whether either has any bearing on what is.
Lawrence Durrell writes, We all seek rational reasons for believing in the irrational. This statement comes as a note, an excerpt from the
theatres of shadow
Yes, the flow of sense is a theatre of shadows, but this does not mean that we should neglect it and focus on “real struggle” – in a way, this very theatre of shadows is the crucial site of the struggle; everything is ultimately decided here. – Slavoj Zizek (in Organs without Bodies, p. 31)
la betise noire
stupidity is the other of the thought that thought does not negate philosophy starts from misosophy that which is incommunicable is in communication