Thursday, August 17, 2006

internalities

What is this about? And why? And who? A dirigible antwhistle? A man with a plan to speak? A hot lass in a short skirt? A chocolate martini? And who has the explanations? And why is there such a drive for things to be explained? Religious maniacs want the root of the tree. More generally monists. Tho' the insanity of the typical monist is so well documented there is no point in precessing around it in glee, for they too are religious in their search for the root of their tree.
I could say "well, it's a dependent origination reticulum -- a do reticulum", and you'd wonder, well if it's this network of links then what does the network subsist in? What's the medium of it's occupation? At this point I look like a frayed water cable and can't offer you any more explanations. I might point at a brick. Or smell like pelargonia as means a way of explaining, but there is no explanans and no explanandum. There's just the whiff of oranges in the breeze and a feeling that somewhere, somehow, an adjective describing cows has been horribly misused. The one true reason is driven in twain. The arborial metaphor is already broken by the time the primate hierarchies come to addict you to it, and most of the time you're so unprepared to defend yourself against such an unreasonable point of you that you're doing planes of it off the backside of the cute local topologist or gardener.

I have a temple to sack that isn't anywhere, it's everywhere. It's a stubborn feature of human reasoning. To counter it I can't employ counterarguments, because those just have the same valences of finding the root or center. So my attack has to be askance, at an angle. Orthogonal to the manifold and breezy. I have to come in, be confused and well nigh incomprehensible, make a few impassioned statements and some very, very explicit object lessons with shockingly visual metaphors, and leave in a huff, or on the breeze, letting it sink in that my point is that I don't have one and neither should you. And if you do have a point, or are a point, then maybe spaciousness is a viable option, and that perhaps you should consider planting some flowers and staring out at the horizon while chewing on a tomato.

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