Tag: wholeness

• April 22, 2013

  The wisdom of one-liners

  Wisdom comes not in but through one-liners. The throughway is the entire expanse of a life of investigation which has been worked and shaped and magnified–like a vast, refined conclusion–into a single intuition. Condensed in that straight, parabolic line is the sinuous beauty of the speaker’s grainy union with the gulping, glorious cosmos. Hold to…
• January 2, 2012

  Never love by halves

  The late philosopher Gilbert Ryle was fond of Jane Austen, so fond that he once likened Austen’s style of characterization to the technique of wine tasting. There is a joke about him that I quite like. When he was asked whether whether he ever read any novels, he replied, “Yes indeed. Each year all 6.”…
• December 20, 2011

  Of this ineffable

  My mother covering me, wholly, from the man with the gun. That was the dream. Being at home in the world. Fuck you, Freud. — I spoke to my friend and former lover after she’d returned from South Sudan. This would have been about a week or so ago. Life was hard there, she said.…