what did it profit that man, to denigrate the dignity of the other man?
January 2003 Archives
We here, living in our vortex, barely realize the effectiveness of one person. When an empire is amalgamated, and invested with not millions, but hundreds of millions of citizens, it is quite possible--seemingly--to lose sight of the value of one.
Not only the power, benefit, and potential of one, but also the limitations, failings, and deceits of one.
We create, we revile
we debate,
we ingratiate, despite a lack
of anything more substantive, than gerrymandered reality.
I break a thing to find out how it works,
I berate a thing to find out if it hurts,
I fake a thing to find if it is false,
I take a thing to find if it is mine,
I bake a thing on which I want to dine,
I make nothing...
Lines
Sensuous in their simplicity, and tenuous in their malleability.
These lines, which conjunct, at angles, create angles, create shapes, create boundaries, create--these lines.
Parallels
Parallel lines give volume, a sense of existence in the accommodation of between the lines. Intersections of complementary lines winnow reality into an ever more taut relationship, a quickening of the sensation of boundaries, of conjunction, of the lines themselves, which, with proximity, give rise to a sensation of magnitude.
Perpendiculars
Supplementary lines have the power to magnify, and a rhythm enhanced, of separation, of distance, of compass--continuing in severity through the use of curves, with their infinite measure, of finiteness--no matter how flat the arc, it meets itself indeed somewhere.
Intersections
Our intersection of shapes--the lines, implied, or ebullient, our curves, arcs, and circles; our radii, squares, rhomboids, trapezoids, parallelograms, hyperbolae, triangles, angles, ovals, borders, points, dots--is a dot a circle? Is a line existent if it is merely the implied connexion of two points? Is a radii of one circle actually the diameter of another, implied circle? Does the position of a radius define the beginning and end of a seemingly infinite circle?
Will the spiral eventually become a circle in its outward progression--not by the axioms of mathematics, but by the unwillingness of the human mind to follow it beyond a certain point? And is that certain point, taken as a mean of sampled minds, profound?
Line Weight
If a line has any thickness, it must connect infinite points. If infinite points lie at either end of a 'thick' line, the line becomes meaningless, and inadvertently an angle instead. A line cannot be represented and simultaneously be accurate, rather, it is a representation of the will of a human mind to designate a space, but is also the visual symbol of the limit of human intellect when dealing with the infinite, for the creation of line symbolizes an arbitrary arrangement relating points--but without specificity, infinity, or truth.
Linear Truth
All lines are angles, and remain inaccurate, and therefore untrue. The search for truth in the apparent cleanliness of line is futile and misleading.
A Rant I Just Couldn't Bear to Part with:
After all, I am so much more... Wait, no! You there, shallow and base; a user, born from being used, with little to offer, and less with the ravage of each passing year. The inverse relationship between the value of the superficial and the essential can be enhanced by understanding, or fought-against with chemicals and artifice. So no, no peace until violence settles it.
