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A Slight Ache
“It was not so much my sight, my sight is excellent,” Edward insists to a matchseller in Harold Pinter’s “A Slight Ache.” The man waits before the gate, and Edward, stoic, aging, is disturbed by his indifference to dress, to age, to a summer storm, to the house, the lonely road, to selling his »
On Signs and Symbols
The luminous glass years of life, their warm, thick and inaccessible faces, stare out of Nabokov’s writing. They watch images of living, people’s movements and fears, as these people look back at their years and feel a strange relief. What is seen becomes part of the narrative, the endless flow of things made I. »
Music: A Personal Essay
I began to make music in May. I did not know what I would do or how to do it. I didn’t know what it would mean for me. I wanted to, so I did it. I felt it would be good. My first step was to decide whether I had the musical seed: »
On Freedom
In thinking about freedom, one thinks about violence. To be given freedom is to be able to act as one pleases within communal constraints: to go where and eat what and speak to whom one desires, provided these things do not violate the unifying boundaries that each community contractually creates. Unless one is in »
Spells
In the net of transmission and perception, the most successful interactions occur when the source shows language. Each concept exists as social information, and succeeds in existing so far as this information approximates its source, or complies with a model suited to context. In the latter case, the communicated material must fit the role »
Love
Not all true things are desire and not all desire is obeyed. When listened to, this want becomes a wild source of life that consumes most other concerns, making it painful or uncomfortable to ignore any slight impulse. Suddenly all acts gain unbearable value, and the body opens further and further, seeing possibilities in »
Desire
Although we are created and live in language, the way we speak and therefore are seen, there are some close, refined things that occupy our bodies. These are sources of action different than is perception, independent of expectation or gain. They draw none from thought, experience, design or fear. These things grip organs and »
Self
In any community, human behavior has three components: the act committed, the medium of transmission, and the moment of perception. Delight will break out in the face, transmitted through sight of the expression to another person, who interprets it in context: the likeliest object of emotion will be connected to a likely source of »