From: "Edward Moore" <monsieurtexteem-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Maeg ic be me selfum...
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:22:05 PDT


...even if the synecdochic fragment -- the essential fragment of the "I" 
-- which is relied upon in the quest for poetic immortality on the 
_material plane_, even if it should be destroyed, by an act of history, 
historical indifference, revulsion and expulsion, book-burning, etc., 
what is to prevent it from either "returning as another,"  or of casting 
a spell, like Joseph Curwen in H. P. Lovecraft's _The Case of Charles 
Dexter Ward_ , and being resurrected by the "Magickal Arts" of some 
dedicated loner in the future...? some loner who seeks out the 
forgotten, the esoteric, works in desk drawers...

  *  *  *

-- Metaphor is not linguistic.  "One cannot rightly speak" of metaphor 
in/as language.  Metaphor belongs solely to the realm of Thought.

-- If all language is metaphor, then, by virtue of that totality -- that 
totalizing movement, description... whatever! -- all language is 
something else... 

  *  *  *

It is not possible to displace our frame of reference: The Material 
World.  But we should not, because of that, believe that the material 
world is all there is, or posit it as an origin.

One need not be religious to believe in a _fall_. --

When artists begin to speak of carbon atoms and computer science, it is 
evident that they have lost touch with the magical waters of the deep 
well of fantasy -- the purple, gold, and green landscape of childhood -- 
eternal childhood that believes in gods and monsters and spirits... and 
creates its own religion...

There seems to be a strange, prevalent fear of the possibility of being 
interpreted...

"Control" and "identity" have become sacred words.

As soon as the concept of personal freedom is fetishized and worshipped 
-- as it is now! -- it ceases to be an ideal; it becomes a prison.

By reducing the fantasies by which we create a sense of freedom for 
ourselves, by reducing them to "material" explanations, we remove from 
our field of vision that which we have come to view as _haze_ or 
_clouds_ (blocking our quest for some sort of truth) -- this _haze_ is 
really the glow accompanying the AS YET INCOMPLETE presence of something 
greater...


Edward Moore
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