Christopher,
My questions were in response to your suggestion that
we _stop_ talking about boundaries and take up
'desire' _instead_. (Not sure what those scare quotes
portend[?].) I don't see the relationship between
desire(s) and boundaries as one of alterity, but
rather as something co-creating and equally pressing
on both sides. We can't get very far talking about one
"instead" of the other because each is implicated in
the other.
As for "Mr. Kripke's fish and chips," the ones in his
beard, you mean? Believe me, if you'd ever had
occasion to watch Mr. Kripke knoshing, you wouldn't
try to leap o'er the Circle of your Being and dive in.
Nor would you, as you say--but seeming to attribute
Moure's words and ideas (as quoted by Doug) to
me--"hurtle" around your house seeking "egress,"
whereby you could get at those loathesome fish and
chips. You would walk out the _door_, as you also say.
And that is my point. Do we, inside our skin, within
our innermost selves, have doors or windows or even,
as Beckett put it, "many loopholes"? I believe we have
thresholds but not portals, apart from what I think of
as the swinging gate of consciousness. Great poetry
emerges, it seems to me, from that continuous motion
and the frustrated desire to pass through that gate
before it swings back on us. It is not the product,
though perhaps great philosophy is, of a 'desire' for
fish and chips.
Thank you for the interesting information about Gordon
Pask. I would have loved to see those five mobiles
interacting like (I imagine) a silent, visual
cacophony of five different windchimes.
Candice
as I raise my head to broadcast my objection
as your latest triumph draws the final straw
who died and lifted you up to perfection?
and what silenced me is written into law.
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