Sometimes I just play word association to see what I can find.
On the back of his bike, doing 80 on the highway, I considered letting go, just to ruin his life. My arms around his waist were the only thing restraining me. But I knew it wouldn’t ruin his life. Not even close.
Two fairy tales by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) suggesting the origin of hermits are set in Africa and China.
“The Forest Dweller”(1917) is set in a thick primordial forest wherein the inhabitants fearfully dwell in arboreal darkness, shunning light, imagining that sunlight glare is blinding. They never leave their dwellings in fear of light and wild animals. Their ruleris an old man once (supposedly) blinded by the sun and since considered a priest and god, whose tyrannical rule is only opposed by a small circle of youths led by Kubu.
The truth as truth has become tyrannical, terrifying. One seeks “infinite play,” polysemy, différance, the free creation of concepts, or various kinds of transgression that satisfy our demand for freedom from hegemonic narratives. Finality is to be rejected in favor of lasting openness, nonfinality, a horizon of possibility that beckons, seduces us to what might be rather than what must be.
The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève by Jeff Love
morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day.
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