Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 10:46:32 -0600
From: allen scult <amscult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Mnemosyne: thinking poetization


Dear Gulio,


> If writing is an adventurous strategy that involves a
> delaying postponement
> then just this becomes a rule of life. 

The term "Rule of Life" and what you make of it reminds me
of an old priest I knew at a college in Peru.  Every day at
the same time, he would walk the path, text held at eye
level practicing the rule of life you point to.  There was
at the same time in his walk and his gaze a persistence and
a pataient waiting.  It would be inaccurate I think to say
he was looking for something.  Rather he was in a posture (
a moving posture) of waiting and whiling with his text, the
text with whom he had committed himself to a rule of life.



When a human being is domesticated by being
> placed inside a
> teleological purpose this means a condemnation of the
> whole, of the
> innocence of becoming and the sympathetic correspondence
> of all things. The
> healthy human being expresses overflowing desire instead
> of fullfilling it's
> needy desire with a utilitarian aim. Existence then is an
> exaltation of
> life. 


What then happens to "desire"?  Does it become a "longing"? 
Somehow, longing seems to reach more deeply ( and further)
than desire into a space that's not just the illusion of
"my."

Need to log off.  Not yet finished.


Allen


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