from The Language of Inquiry by Lyn Hejinian
[worth every second]
Day: January 26, 2013
a blast to read
10. According to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, the inability to simultaneously predict your and your lover’s locations and velocities means that, whether still or moving, spicing up the relationship is already implicit in the universe.
9. Spreading out like a wave comes in handy during lapses in judgement, because it allows you to consider or “try out” all the options at hand before compacting into a particle when it’s time to take responsibility for your actions.
8. Because you can only predict probabilities at the quantum mechanical realm of atomic and subatomic particles, you can never really win, no matter the argument.
7. There are minor temperature variations across the sky and as far back in spacetime as when it was cold enough for atoms to fire up their nuclei. These variations are leftovers from the formation of planets and galaxies billions of years ago. Analogously, that thing you did in…
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Fictional Families, pt. 7
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“…like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed to be immovable, and composes a fresh pattern.”
–Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove–
Boy meets girl. Man, Woman. Husband, Wife. Father, Mother. Produces the child, a child, children.
Pieces shake out of joint.
Father. Husband. Man. Girl. Woman. Boy. Produces the child, a child, children.
Arranges different order.
Husband meets girl. Man, Woman. Husband, Wife. Mother, Father. Mother. Produces the child, a child, children.
Jumble and collide, slide over.
Girl meets boy. Man. Husband. Father. Woman. Husband. Wife. Mother. Mother. Child, child, children. Produces none. Adds three.
Kaleidoscopes fresh patterns.
Husband, Wife. Men. Women. Father. Father. Mother. Mother. Mother. Child. Child. Child. Child. Child. Child. Child. (Children).
Many is the new unit. Same – the new variety. Names – the faulty designators.
Fall the doctrines of origin and cause. The sense belong. The myths of ontology. Infinite regress. Unlimited semiotics.
Turn the scope, altering view – collage is the new entire. Copy – the new original. Fragment – the new whole.
Child. Child. Child. and Child. Child. Child. Child. “belonging” now to Father-Mother. Father. Mother-Mother. Mother-Father.
Fresh pattern.
By steps and halves and partnerships; alliances and circumstance and blood.
Arithmetic of variables multiplied by chance and power.
Now Mo3 + M3 = 2 + 2 + 3.5 or F3 + W3 = 2(-1/2) + 2(-1/2) + 3-1 where Mo=mother (Mo1, Mo2, Mo3, Mo4), M = man (F=father, W=wife, H=husband, and so forth-1 once removed).
The scraggly male through one variable and nonsymmetrical equation would be F2×2(+3/.5)H3M? for W3/C2+C2+1/2C3 or Father of C=biological children 4 times via 2 sets with 3 additional ½-children by marriage to W3 (third wife) which man or woman they are for one another is an n = unknown variable.
A physicist might be able to map this new arrangement, fresh patterning of conventionality: the family by strands of blood and webbed relations multiplying, bending and stretching (read: re-signifying) concept terms and nouns of relation such as brother, sister, mother, father, spouse &/or partner.
All in variable contexts. Involves Theory of Complexity. Without mastery or solutions. No absolutes. Arbitrary forms actively adapting. No truths. A world of half-breeds and bastards. Infinite regress. Anomaly.
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