dunja

The sky above the port in the colour of television tuned to a dead channel is all that remains

Your body spilt over my body

Brings reality to seeing

Read the book. It’s hard to write about it in one note, so this is just an intro, or something like the first impressions… The favorite game of leaving footprints in the snow made by accidental figures – that’s all that remains… for some reason i need to bring these Octavio Paz’s lines:

...the unreality of the seen

transparency is all that remains

Your footsteps in the next room...

…

Was L. B. only a faker, a lost personality, stretched between different cultures and demands of society… or was he driven by the realization of the value of moments and their disappearance once they are prolonged, shaped into a socially acceptable form, extended into what we are or what we become once we let it all roll down… or was he someone who couldn’t accept the fact that he wasn’t what he hoped he’d be or maybe he just wanted to watch himself from a distance, leaving things as they were and himself involved in them as it all was… a bit like Orasio Oliveira from Cortazar’s Hopscotch… home – away – back home, but home isn’t home anymore, and you are not you and it’s all good as long as it remains untouched, just a trace laying in a snow, until it melts or the new snow falls over it.

It’s been a while since I last posted something on here. Too much to study… I’ve seen bunch of great movies, so maybe I’ll drop a comment on them soon… maybe not. I’ll definitely write about L.Cohen’s book The Favorite Game soon, it has some great points for discussion.

Today Christian and I concluded that nowadays philosophy is so messy, people are trying to publish as much as possible and as a result, we get bunch of texts based on insufficient education or insufficiently read literature. But nobody complains, cause the more slippery articles we have, the more room for the criticism of them, hence more publishing.

Another thing you get in nowadays (mainly anglosaxon) philosophy is such an ignorance towards traditional philosophical terms (but that’s nothing new, right…). Terms like transcedent and transcendental or ontic and ontological are so often used either interchangeably… bah