The permission of red things
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October 13, 2008
“I was thinking of someone and looking at two ball point pens neatly arranged side by side on my desk and it struck me that there was me and her. She was the red pen, I was the black.”
November 23, 2007
The merely rational is a solution to nothing. One has to think strategically .. To say that life is a rational wilderness identifies rationality as a small almost helpless creature living in the wild, like a mouse except that its world is imagination-derived rather than the result of any natural environment. Life’s idiom, the biblical image… [Read more…]
October 23, 2007
One is ruled by image; everything is appearance. This fact, documented by novelists; since it informs their observational material in large part; raises the question of how then, it is so vague to us, how it is so ill-seen, such a cloud of nothing, that here lies the dictator, posing in the mirror and setting out… [Read more…]
October 11, 2007
Can one say this, that the world one doesn’t originate, which is (nominally or, if you like, in appearance, ontologically) the actual or objective world, the world that exists in itself, is as a desire a kind of crack in space, there is where the homelessness of the truth is found, this is where one… [Read more…]
October 10, 2007
We live in an age without history, an age without context. This is a mannerless age. ‘Infection’ runs abroad. One behaviour destroys another. If happiness is an unattainable image, a spectre of the mind, that is because of a painful stupidity and a simple reason. It is because - to take my own case – I am not in myself but, as myself, I… [Read more…]
October 9, 2007
Maybe I’m nothing but a shadow on the wall. (Pere Ubu) Nothing in my life is an end in itself. Nothing is enough. All I see is machinery, wheels turning; automatons. A faceless, instrumentalised world; hell. Imagine. How I am cast out of the world. A big H.
October 8, 2007
I will attempt to suggest something of what is at stake in this series of observations by the following remark. (If the below comments are read sequentially, or in the reverse order to which they were made, they can be read as a philosophical argument.) Suppose I am happy. What does this ‘gain in freedom’ mean? My world is complete. I want… [Read more…]
October 8, 2007
A very simple distinction exists in civic life, but which is often overlooked or misunderstood. This is the distinction between things that are to be regarded as ends in themselves; and things that are to be valued instrumentally. A human being is an end unto himself. A block of wood is a means to an end. … [Read more…]
October 6, 2007
Very often, we say, in making cause with an explanation of what is going on with something, words to the effect that what is really happening is … : “It is not really that …” – “What’s actually happening is —” – “What is in fact happening .. is” … On the nature of thought… [Read more…]
October 13, 2008
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