Saturday, June 14, 2008
Using ten to describe one
Somethings you have to reduce to absolutes. "I am" or "I am because ....", which carries a greater determination? We like clear, conscious answers but we also like long, detailed elaborate explanations. We need relation, abstraction offers nothing for us to relate to. To deal in words is to deal in structures, pre-arranged rules, logical assemblages of units. It is inherent in language and words to attach meaning, to change ideas to fit the form of words, to depend on an agreement for a vague definition of the external. To express your idea as simple as possible is not a sign of a lack of concise vocabulary but an effort to unite reality with the idea. It is the intellectuals, the scholars who see a missing part, a required piece of the logical equation. To them "It is so" is infinitely less beautiful because it lacks in minutie the amount of words to give it proper place in the world.
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