> "For do not things have names only to help us grasp them better, as if the
> blank spaces in the atlas we have made for ourselves out of reality
> disappear only so the colonial empire of the mind may grow?"
My bent is more esoteric, "In the beginning was the word...", that naming
one's world is an act of divination, bringing into being, acknowledging that
the conscious stones and our own consciousness is entwined. I also think of
Jacob wrestling the angel who would not let him go until Jacob could name
him (the angel). The power of language is not just in order to grasp things
better, it is to know them and ourselves inter-related in the dance (that
dancing sitting down even).
> learning to use the opaque images of broken rebellion as a means of
> communication."
Over the years I've heard the word opaque used in connection with poetry and
it grates on me. Why would I want an opaque literature, "impenetrable by
light; neither transparent nor translucent, not reflecting light; having no
luster"?
a flute the moon a tiny heart
sleepless music on the water
all there is everywhere at once
and anywhere you point points back
to you at the speed of light
name this thing a separate being
in a crisis of perception
who is whose reflection
FP
Just some thoughts that came up for me. Of course I may be quite mad.
- Frank
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