Warm Recollections #31
More from the Bitz Files
As introduced here, these Warm Recollections are random cullings from thirty years of notes files…
The kind of very serious but lopsided argument couples have when one of them has genuinely done something bad, and therefore has to take everything the other person is saying, even if they really are being a bit of an asshole about it.
The aphorism is the perfect expression of philosophical thought. Any attempt to chain ideas together runs the grave risk of deforming them, just as an addition to a house must reflect the shape of what was there before, and can neither be built nor even conceived as an article in its own right. Theory will always be subject to internal dissonance: any given thought has the chance to be inviolable.
Sometimes your imagination is too good. You can get furious about something which hasn’t actually happened, some imagined conversation or slight. Bear this in mind when you’re getting upset about things that have happened. A large portion of your response is merely coming from your own head, not the event itself.
‘Lost in thought’ is an interesting phrase. Instead of experiencing reality, and this moment, you are caught up in a net of ideas and words which actually insulate you from experience. This can be pleasurable and beneficial, but that’s because there can be pleasure in being untethered from experience, like a small boat bobbing gently on a sea of words. Only by putting the sea behind you, by coming into shore and tying your craft to the land, do you concretely interact with reality and ‘what is going on’.
This happened long ago, when mountains were people.
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Love that last one! Want to read that story, now.