Monday, August 6, 2012
Pitch a Stone into the Well
I heard the throbbing of search engines in the night, ingesting knowledge like alphabet soup and excreting it into the wastestream (blogosphere).
(The weather was beastly hot; it might have been air-conditioner compressors pumping stale air out of chilly bedrooms, CFC's. For your respiratory enjoyment, with our compliments.)
The blogosphere: where all literary ambition goes to die. (Je suis blogiste). Alphabet soup. Lettré, well-lettered. Out of the ether of knowledge into the wastestream funneled. Sewer effluvia. Transformation of ether into methane gas. Ether of the still-unsaid (can’t-be-said?) still-not-heard.
Everything you ever wondered at (like: can space see?): sum it up in a word (like: “sky”). Utter it. Would it make a sound in cyberspace? (Does cyberspace have a sky?) Or collapse the noisy auditorium in on itself, everyone crowding to listen? Implosion of all (cyber)space. Cybergeeks panting like beached whales in the open sun. Grinding metal of voice synthesizers and translation engines. Our world–that fool–(cybernetic but without κυβερνήτης, pilot, the poor fool) hearkening to the splash of a pebble but falling instead head over heels into the well? Pitch a stone into the liquid pupil of a well--O great blue iris of the sky!--and feel the water tug on your neck.
Listen through your eyes.
Pitch a stone into the well.
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How can one thing see another thing? The geometry is all wrong. Only everything can see anything. And everything is a sphere. (I.e., the sky. Strange sphere: an inside with no outside.) "I see" is just a lazy way of saying "I am seen." By the sky and not by the sky. Metaphysische Zweideutigkeit: Sein (sky) and das Seiende im Ganzen (sky). Sie sind das Selbe. The sky falls into the well between the two ambiguities--or is the well. The sky falls into the well. Pitch a stone. "The sky is falling" said Henny-Penny. Fools in the auditorium scatter for the exits.
ReplyDelete“I am seen”: a “seeing” invests me, now I can see. Ein Sehen sich ereignet (sich er-äugnet).