Subject: renting elements -- monocles and kaleidoscopes
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:01:06 -0700


>It is true that a scheme is what makes up a "we" and not an "I".

Aye, but the "we" can still be an "I", yet not merely an "eye"...  The
monocle of the I sees everything apart from it(self)-- where the "I" that is
also "we" views everything as kaleidoscopic, seeing pieces of it(self) in
the periphery of its central focus...Thus, the novel... The simulated
"we"... A false communique...



***"compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws...
[and] this same compulsion exists in the sense activities that support
reason -- by simplification, coarsening, emphasizing, and elaborating, upon
which all "recognition," all ability to make oneself intelligible rests."***

And here, more evidence of a "self" based we... As a condition (fiction) of
biological organization (fact)... Or, the procession of "sense activities"
through and toward the usable...  The wordly "we"'s becoming "I" -- sense
data collected through the monocular observations of a single organism are
introduced into a process that either promotes and organizes them as
temporary sustenance(Rigor) or fiction(Frivolity), commingled on the inside
and distributed for the sake of continuation, and so on, one to another...
Thus, in communication, one is either giving up a reasoned organ
(rigorous-fiction)or presenting the other with waste, shit - a frivolous
object that gives back to the "I" as release... Re-lease back to nature...
The relay of facts, as this object does not participate in the fiction of
(conscious)reason, but remains open, continuing, cycling and becoming...  A
portion of the "I" re-entering the incomprehsible "we" of the elemental...

***Our natural tendency is to fix
becoming... which is strictly speaking impossible to comprehend and
know***

Could we not say that this is our "conscious" tendency... We do not enter
into nature if we begin to classify tendencies... Or, it is a symptom of
human consciousness, thus a problem of knowledge, that we use the monocle
rather than kaleidoscope in con-forming our world...