The quoted segment explores the labyrinthine, puzzle-like nature of art, – whether poetry or theater, or music, or perhaps of painting or of sculpture. Imagine yourself in a gallery, or in an artist’s studio and you are surrounded by an array of paintings, or perhaps by sculpture. Each work is a portal into the…
Tuesday morning is clear and chilled. At last fall envelops us. Hot coffee tastes especially delicious. Having discovered a collection of quotations relative to Religion and Unbelief, again I ponder my own journey. I do not think I’ve exercised choice at any point in the matter of religion. Prior to my birth infinite circumstances…
Reading Nietzsche ranks with the most difficult of duties within memory. I categorize my inclination, my taste for his fevered commentary, the excavation of language in the only way possible, with language, – as a duty. I am reminded of being taken as a sick child to the family doctor by my parents. Then…
I felt comfort to see the horizon alight with the dawn. Upon entering the seating area at Starbucks, I felt the red of the Christmas-holiday promotion posters behind the beverage prep. counter. Paper cups with the colorful holiday graphic were stacked ready for use. Thus, I am reminded that life has a relentless heartbeat…
The Trump rally of Sunday at Madison Square Garden has been in the news. The rally was billed as an occasion for the closing arguments of the Trump campaign. The “argument” developed as a hate fest, a racist orgy castigating Puerto Rico and immigrant citizens from Puerto Rico who certainly vote in elections. Trump himself,…
I have nothing specific in mind, this morning. This text merits bringing to the fore for consideration. Scratch the surface of the widespread dissatisfaction with American society, and you will find those who wish to turn the country over to a sociopath are convinced that doom is in store. Divine judgment is near. There’s…
The statement is enough. It will be sufficient to linger for a while to consider what this means, how extensive the repression of imagination. Our imagination expands our world. The world is held conjointly, you and I in relation, even more, in company with all living and nonliving things. Who is to say that…
Tuesday begins. The day promises to be full. The launchpad for my life is Starbucks as usual. I have adjusted long ago to the full-bodied flavor of the Starbucks brand of coffee, and confess that I look forward to my first cup, and to my second cup, etc. etc. How do they achieve the…
Happiness for us is thinkableonly in the air that we have breathed,among the people who have lived with us.In other words, there vibratesin the idea of happiness…the idea of salvation. …Our life it can be said,is a muscle strong enough to contract the whole of historical time. Or, to put it differently, the genuine…
I am reading an extended essay by Byung-chul Han entitled The crisis of narration. Han quotes often from Walter Benjamin. Here are a few lines from Han: Communicable experience based upon word of mouthis becoming increasingly rare.Nothing is passed down;nothing is narrated. Benjamin holds that the storyteller‘is a man who has counsel for his…
