A society of consumption and leisure is characterized by a particular temporality. Surplus time, which is the result of a massive increase in productivity, is filled with events and experiences that are fleeting and short-lived. As nothing binds time in a lasting fashion, the impression is created that time is passing very quickly, or…
We departed the Outer Banks crossing the five mile long Melvin R. Daniels Bridge on I64 in bright sunlight. The bridge arched over the water ahead of us. We approached Alligator Island, I could see the marina below with a row of big (and expensive) ocean fishing craft at rest. These looked to be…
We enjoyed a last walk along the beach at Nags Head. The gently rolling surf enveloped us in its timeless cadence. I would like to think this island will last forever, the waves will beat on this beach eternally. I know that eternity is an abstraction, a fiction of the mind, and that, change…
Boredom dominates the widening gapbetween subject and world,between freedom and facticity,between action and being. The Dasein that is determined to act,is no longer familiar with the feeling of being-surroundedor of being-taken-in.The ‘point’ of the ‘moment’, as the temporal form of the self,lacks the width and length of ‘home’,the space for dwelling and lingering. …’home’…
Yesterday the sun rose like a god, above the rim of the watery horizon. The language is an inadequate description I know; words pointing to the rotation of this earth relative to our star, the source of life here, upon our home planet. Furthermore the sun as well as our earth and every planet…
Today a guest post is offered from a friend living in the neighboring town of Geneva. To write is to wait for the apt words to express the journey that one is taking. Chaucer, whose collection of 24 stories were published in 1483 would have agreed. Sunday looking out my backyard windows signs of…
We visited the Wright Bros. Memorial at Kill Devils Hill, Kitty Hawk. I was particularly moved by the exhibits. The Wrights, Orville and Wilbur, residents of Dayton Ohio, transported their flyer to Kitty Hawk North Carolina, due to reports of wind conditions favorable to powered flight. On the remote sandy beach in 1903 Orville…
Before noon we walked across the street to a restaurant called Tortugas’ Lie. Tortugas is Spanish for turtle. The Cayman Islands were originally called The Tortugas. A paragraph in the menu explains that Lie is the lair of an animal or of an anchorage at sea, such as would have been used by BLACKBEARD in…
Truth…consists of relationships between events. Truth occurs when things communicate with each other on the basis of a similarity or some other form of closeness between them, when they turn towards each other and enter into a relationships with each other, even befriend each other. Only relationships based upon similarity, friendship or affinity make…
Everyone has ideas, even more than they need. What matters is the poetic singularity of analysis. Only the spirituality of language can justify writing. Not a miserable objectivity of ideas. There will never be a solution to the contradiction of ideas, except inside language itself, in the energy and fortune (happiness) of language. —…
