Doug's post was so refreshing - what a summoning of thoughts in the
cause of thoughtfulness. I'd also been mystified by Che Qianzi's
assertions while dipping into Boundary 2. It seems the idea of
transformation will run off with anything rather than go empty-
handed. The running off doesn't in itself radically lighten anything.
I was especially impressed by Doug's note on essence & origin. So
often these terms do defer to the mathematical for definition, though
these words may be as polysemous as any other. The non-identity of
mathematical and religious notions of infinity has been familiar for
many generations. That "origin" word is still haunting, and I still
find it slipping quite overtly into my poetry as a word surprisingly
grateful to be offered a context and fruitful with it. The only
reflection I can offer is a thought emerging from some contemporary
theology that transcendence refers to a source/resource never
wholly present but impossible to ascribe to absence either. It
escapes from being a quibbling paradox by making present its reserve,
by offering its horizon in a companionable and resourceful way, and
only from that point also beckoning towards the "uses of absence"in
time.
Form and the phenomenological was more the essence of Doug's post,
and I hope to hear more on that.
Peter
Peter Larkin
Philosophy & Literature Librarian
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
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