: IL A PLU.
You cannot live with a falsehood anymore than another's truth
can be
lived for you, and the falsehood does not make itself known for many
years. Or you can live with a falsehood, in the way that one may be
said
to accommodate (to make room for when there is no room): rented rooms,
lodgings, the two windows facing East and West. Rooms are sometimes
said
to be spacious, as the ridge of woods over the river and the view of
the
river through them at bends in the path promote the perception of
space.
"It is too much." That is nothing we see, did you notice? What there
cannot be enough of, as all the words that are nothing beyond the
moment
of their mouthing. Did you notice there are words that should not be
said, until they are demonstrated? The most broken of poems demonstrate
the difficulty of their expression, this difficulty we forget endlessly
in conversation. One voice follows another, without direction. But the
words spoken depend on each other, listening for each other. How few
images there are when words are used for speaking, breaking (why are
the vowels not identical?) over one another and breathing. There is
still air to be circulated, respiratory. The spoken word is the product
of agitation, addressing that problem, whether or not to be silent,
and produces agitation in return, if I breathe your name into you.
I know what I cannot give you, yet all my actions refuse to recognize
this limitation. How do I know? What do we consider to be knowledge,
accepting the authority of a process over which there is no possibility
of intervening. In place of the possibility should be written chance
and
accident. That is what happens here, whether the words are typed or
lettered by hand. We are always only at the boundary between two
languages. The one knows itself through the other, you said, and
remembering it now, only two days later, the thought that is my
thought,
in the other language, that the numberless lives lost must have been
for something, not nothing, at least not only the view of the river
through the bend of the path beyond the beech trees and pines,
disliking descriptions of nature as much as you, despite the poem by
Ponge. The landscape dissolves in the emotion projected on to it,
leaving nothing behind the declaration of the subject. How satisfying
that must feel, broadcasting my state, my mind. So one seeks
interference, resistance, negation. The boundary is the unit of time,
and it confines, defines, every moment and the perception configured
there. The reflection you mentioned doubled the image in opposed, even
contradictory, manifestations of motion and stasis.