RE: "Joints"--Bury my Herakleitos at Wounded knee!
Candice
on 4/8/02 1:55 PM, KENT JOHNSON at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Thank you, Alison and Candice. Here are some more. I'll post one more by
> Archilochos tomorrow. Everything is conjecture, of course.
>
> The formatting gets messed up in the transmission, but this gives you and
> idea.
>
> Kent
>
> *
>
> Drums
>
> Drums, sweet and tart,
> the thighs thrum
> [ ]
> You, god who does me,
> again and again,
> [ ] Eros, raising
> the fragrant switch,
> who straddles with four legs,
> or more.
>
> --Sappho
>
> **
>
> Fragment
>
> [ ] they will remember us
> by our pieces. Our torsos
> will move them to poetry.
> They will put our parts on parade,
> to imagine what we were,
> so to forget what they,
> dreaming us, are.
>
> --Attalyda, provenance and dates unknown
>
>
> **
>
> Joints
>
> Joints are parts of the body and yet not parts of the body.
> They join through opposition to create a harmony of autonomous forces.
> Mountains arise because of the absence of mountains.
> The absence of mountains arises because of the mountains.
> Because neither exists without the other, neither exists in self- same
> identity.
> This is also true of all flora and fauna, of all humans and all their deeds.
> When we are awake we share a world.
> When we are asleep, we are each in a discrete world.
> This is, upon reflection, like the mountain and its absence.
> This is also like words and their ideas.
> Words are mountains; ideas are the absence around words.
> Identity arises from discrete particulars; discrete particulars arise in
> identity.
> Our understanding of the greatest matters will never be consummated.
> All opposition is seamlessly interconnected by atomic joints.
>
> --Herakleitos, fifth century B.C.
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