Subject: Fly-away Thought
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 20:38:01 PDT




          "... the words come gushing out, as it were, set
          down without connecting links, and almost 
          outstripping the speaker himself"
           (Longinus, _On the Sublime_, tr. Dorsch).


Now, as speaker, victim of wordly (verbal) democracy, 
my wor(l)d skewed by out-reaching yet veiled
nu(is)ances of a system(atic rigor) ...

I am re-veiled, shrouded, as a dead man,
my tongue taking on the consistency of cotton ...
Insular, circular.  Provisions are made ...


   *  *  *  *  *


The vein of a foot.
Circulation; circumambulation of hylic essence,
as fluid as the externalized Word ... :

          _pros ton theon_   :

     "Listening not to me but to the pure word,
     it is wise to agree that all things are one"
      (Heraclitus, fragment B 50).


Then the "base seduction" (Bataille) of a foot, even if it carries the 
gaze downward, pulsates with the essence of the lofty cranium.  The waxy 
heat of the sole is balm for the tongue of cotton.

"Know thy place" is as solemn a sage-like utterance as "know thy Self."

When one recognizes the equal distribution of all essence, salvation is 
already pulling him homeward.  And 'home' is always in the direction of 
the gaze.  The outward-looking ones are already home; the reflective 
ones are weak only; and the purely inward-looking ones are saved by 
nature, by ESSENCE.


   *  *  *  *  *


When the words gush out and flow freely, essence is expanding unto chaos 
... chaotic illumination --> _punctuation_, restrictions of all sorts, 
scatter before its flying fury ... One relies upon the interpreter, the 
contaminating Other, for "[n]othing is more distressing than a thought 
that escapes itself" (Deleuze, Guattari, _What is Philosophy?_: Columbia 
1994, p. 201).  A thought that flies before its own shadow.

_Hylic thought_ is fly-away thought => creativity always in retreat 
before its own potentiality.  Possessing, as it does, a _derived_ 
essence (as paradoxical as that sounds), hylic thought ranges from lofty 
heights to sultry and even morbidly icy depths.  Any and every thought 
of (a) matter is open to this, and bears its cross as an inherent flaw 
... it awaits salvation --> a salvation which is present already at its 
very root.

Hylic thought finds its primal (originary) essence beyond all 
determinations ... even beyond the I.  The 'unknown god' does not grant 
salvation, but rather is the reason a concept like 'salvation' gets 
invented in the first place.


~~ Edward >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (!)











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