btw, what you said about the possibility of choosing who to side with and how there's a certain wisdom in siding with the minority was just really great. i couldn't have put it any better or any more elegantly--if that is not wisdom, i don't know what is. feeling 'immune' and siding with those who are better off is more of an insult to thinking and ( Read more... )

i wish inhabiting language were easier for me. then i at least could index the place i speak from--not express or show--just index it. ("i speak from a far place"--which greek tragedy was this in?)

i wish words would keep the blue demons away, like whistling in the dark.
and goodness knows how i wish i could walk in the vast, shimmering, temporally ( Read more... )

i am just a character out of a tennessee williams play. there is nothing else to say and nothing else to do. all you can do is to play the part--always the same part--as all other parts are no longer available and perhaps have never been.

i've got a pain in my sawdust.
that's what's the matter with me.

i guess here's my underlying concern with this aspect of levinas (i'm only musing here, so you can tell me what you think because you've worked so much more on this): i really do wonder to what extent ethics as necessity or universal duty and this vision of existence as inherently tragic go hand in hand. in other words, i just wonder if these two ( Read more... )

personally, i've never decided anything on this question of existence being intrinsically tragic. in fact i've argued against it in the past, but it wasn't a good argument... :) it's just such a hard issue. i will still say my usual mantra 'if everything is tragic, nothing is,' so, generally speaking, i'm more on board with merleau-ponty in how he ( Read more... )

now i understand why i can relate to gregory house, m.d., no matter what he does: he is standing in an invisible circle, an atmospheric field, if you will, of fiascos and deep, resonating sorrow. yes, sorrow is the word. he - you - may wish to break free from this circle, but it's more like bitter cigarette smoke permeating your very being, like ( Read more... )

much better than Reznor's original. duh.

Doll is Mine

“The calamity of the rightless is not that they are deprived of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or of equality before the law and freedom of opinion-formulas which were designed to solve problems within given communities-but that they no longer belong to any community whatsoever. Their plight is not that they are not equal before the ( Read more... )