Monday, October 26, 2009

The Man Said, "I have to walk up seventy-two steps."

  • to one degree or another, fiction is yet another groping after forms - disingenuous, callous, even hateful.



  1. no grand introduction to concepts - a coherent structure that flows continuously can be a dishonest attempt to reconfigure life to make it more palatable. not always the this incoherent, scattering of thought processes represents a particular archetypal modern human experience. in its most offensive state, coherence obstructs creativity, rupture, and thus growth. at its most flourishing friendly, coherence stabilizes and saves, organizes a cluttered library. however, at its most impoverishing, spontaneity spirals, loses focus, becomes incoherence, becomes arbitrary, splintering the self: this isn't animalistic abdication; this is the willed slavery of the dilligent dogmatist; and soon he'll eat his own tripe, slowly beginning his descension from mere ennui into anonymity. spontaneity finally begets the static.

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"Seeing that before long I must confront humanity with the most difficult demand ever made of it, it seems indispensable to me to say who I am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; is it perhaps a mere prejudice that I live? ... I need only to speak with one of the "educated" who come to the Upper Engadine for the summer, and I am convinced that I do not live ... Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits, even more the pride of my instincts, revolt at bottom, namely, to say: Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!" - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo