Sunday, June 11, 2006

Only Connect

The idea of a god that is forged spontaneously out of a bond, as we make a wish or pray, or in an act of love, leads to the inference that in an absolute state of being, where ideas subside and presences make themselves vividly felt, the self would experience a solid nothingness, a severance from characteristics that cause reflections of that self to tie one outwardly to life. God thinning out and stretching over the whole of one's being could never be closer than in such a state. Ultimately, though, the body would rebel, the ambivalence born of material existence would reclaim the mind, which would turn back into itself to seek meaning where there should otherwise remain the only choice a fully lived life experience could provide: death. God begins and ends in hope and love. In these terms, faith, which consists of the labour of love and the hope of salvation, is never questioned, only deferred, in order that one may come to terms with the impersonal just as well. It is through relationships that meanings - these episodic homages to life - spring up, while in order to comprehend any meaning, one does need to stop, hold back, and stare into the abyss, to "love in the midst of despair". Perfect poeticism balances itself on just such a narrow ledge between the two states of receiving the impact of a sensation and being engulfed by the sorrow of comprehending the meaning of the transmission. Sorrow is the emotion of comprehension.

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Speaking of Nothing

"Nothing" is a natural reply to the inquiry "what are you hiding". Experiences may be symbolically camouflaged as secrets, held, as something to avoid, in darkness and silence, kept well away because in fact they are so near. A definition for a secret: That which once revealed turns into its own reason for having at an earlier point been a secret, that "something" that it is outside the realm of symbols, i.e. a horror born of an immeasurable actual distance. Being secretive is the attempt at matching the uncanniness of the experience with an equal distance created between the knowledge borne by the self and that held by others. The aura of an artwork, an enigmatic expression, the reflection of an object seemingly not there, all speak of the same nothing. Nothing is neither true nor false; nor can it be judged to be good or bad. As it refers to a void, it can only be overcome. In the realm of comedy uncanny distances or differences are made use of to prompt a laughing response. Laughter is directed at the instance of exaggeration. The situation being in itself funny cannot hold true, except if by that is simply meant that the distance is naturally felt, irrespective of whether or not it is poignantly meaningful.

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