Subject: (f)roll(ick)ing pataphysics (in)/to infinite dimen-tia-[sons]
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 21:22:22 PDT




          (-- for "Left Hand Luke" Pellen)


                                                    let us

          <In> imaginat[ion]

                             [  .....  ]


           a reading/writing that obscures reminiscence.

                                 V
                              all-ways ... bound to 
                              the gaze:


          "[The Wise Man] simply _is_ and does not _become_;
          he maintains himself in _identity_ to himself and
          he is satisfied in and by this identity"
           (Kojeve, _Introduction to the Reading of Hegel_:
           1969, 1980, p. 77).


-- That is, the _hylic_ man ... He who rests in & upon the world of 
beings, of others ...
             and "the _absolute spirit_ [that] possesses itself in 
knowledge" (Marias, _History of Philosophy_: 1967 tr., p. 319) is a 
_concept_ derived from this world, and fails to take into account the 
mo(ve)ment that brought it hither.


          *     *     *


The Mandaeans (a Gnostic sect surviving to this day in southern Iran and 
Iraq) declare(d) music to be evil ... ; such a declaration can be 
justified by demonstrating the manner in which music -- or, more 
properly, _rhythm_ -- draws the Self away from the I ... throwing the 
Eye/Self into a "mode of being where nothing is unconscious, but where 
consciousness, paralyzed in its freedom, plays, totally absorbed in this 
playing" (Levinas, 'Reality and its shadow', _The Levinas Reader_: 1989, 
p. 133).

                                      ... >

In & through our association with this world our consciousness is not 
extinguished, but rather placed outside the sphere or spectrum of 
_immediacy_, -- : and is there/fore (forced) to act as/(provide) the 
grounding for an existence whose (idea[l] of) _perfection_ is to be 
sought in/through the approval of others.

          "[The Wise Man] is objectively satisfied, by universal
          'recognition', for no one would want to force him to
          change the state that satisfies him" (Kojeve, p. 79).

For to force the 'Wise Man' to change or abandon his perfect state would 
require an effort on behalf of the opposing Other that would effectively 
draw that Other out of his/her solipsistic-interpretative stance ... and 
in such a manner would being's delicate balance collapse, -- : in a 
mo(ve)ment of object-subject _fusion_ -- ... not without an attempt at 
consiliatory re-cognition/renewal ... however, futile -- .

The purpose of the trapped spirit, then, is not to mimic its originatory 
essence by refusing to act -- to _desire_ nothing -- ... by believing 
that a state of adequation can possibly be established between objective 
world and (interior) _pleroma_. -- : but rather to (f)roll(ick) 
(in)/along the finite path of be(com)ing, and inscribe there/in/on its 
echoes/traces of eternity/infinity ...


~~ Edward











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