Distillation: con-tar, cont-ar, co-untar

Oct 19, 2006 12:14

No, not a representation, not an imitation, not even a presentation--And yet, perhaps, in some senses, a little bit of all of these. An account. Yes, all right, a testimony if you wish, but a testimony that is not a testimony in the senses that the word seems to imply.

How can one posess without letting go--And more than that, more than a simple letting go, a decisive letting go, a letting fall, a giving to none, a giving from--This giving that is necessarily the antithesis of posession would, in execution, be the decisive, definitive action of posession.

Can one be present, decisively, without the conscious, decisive action of being absent? How is the act of absenting yourself decisively the act of being present?

Is it not?

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What would such an account be? What form (what paradigm, what structure, what process, what aesthetics, what senses, what scale, what shape? What color? What frequency? What conjugation?) would such an account take (assume, embody, live, represent, imitate, destroy in being, exemplify?)? To what would an account such as this, whose presence is in the absence of any presence so far presented/present-ed--testify?

What affirmation? What truth? What structures? What transcendence(s)? What justice, and what reason?

How would such an account testify?
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