the slow rolling dusk, or grayest gray-
in tangles it falls golden tinsel- of substance!
against the grayest gray.
it all makes sense-
the walls, the curtain, box corners and folds
dark suffocation, escape to dreary (only)
Then is HE
(within! the box)
gallantly trot- more like waves on rocks.
the Big Bird in tight to bosom
SQUAWK!-
Why I Write (Words to get beyond words)/
Why I Think (Concepts to get beyond concepts)
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The subtle tie between experience and language cannot be denied. The larger a vocabulary one has in a given subject, the more in-depth and intricate one can experience that subject. Vice-versa, the more experience one has with a certain subject the more language he will have to communicate it. Consider, for example, a food critic.
Our culture tends to be highly objective when it comes to our value system. We are in an eternal rush to assimilate objects. Money (our official value symbol) is the "objectification of objects", meaning it represents a universal abstraction of the worth of objects, the market value of objects, if you will. Thus, we "objectively" view objects.
In one of my classes we have recently been studying a text by Jean-Luc Marion. In the little I have read so far, Marion has given an extremely interesting approach to the notion of the gift in our society.
Many people misconceive "philosophy". They will gloss over its meaning, encase it within a (static) term, mummify it. They simplify, reduce, and strangle- too weak to face the intensity of "philosophy" head on.
