Distance, faith, and loss

Reading paths / 12 stations / 7,072 words / 32 min contemplative traversal

  1. 01 The World is as Hostile as the Morning
  2. 02 Before the World Caves In
  3. 03 Liminal Spaces Change here for Grief and substitution
  4. 04 A pocket of void in the universe
  5. 05 Making sense of making sense
  6. 06 When the Earth Pushed Back
  7. 07 We Were Mute in the Mouth of the Moon
  8. 08 Jacob's Ladder
  9. 09 perpetually inconsolable Change here for Grief and substitution
  10. 10 a small glossary about the weight of loss Change here for Grief and substitution
  11. 11 A Letter to Simone Weil, on distance
  12. 12 Declarations_Of faith Change here for Language and the unsayable
Plate / Distance, faith, and loss
Hop 01 The World is as Hostile as the Morning creative / 3 min

Always falling short or too early to shoot the load. There can be no difference between speaking and listening. If I meld everything here, how much repulsion can someone take before losing interest?

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Hop 02 Before the World Caves In creative

Exegesis: then, we forgave God for creating the universe. It was “inevitability” in its purest form.

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Hop 03 Liminal Spaces · A lunatic's guide to becoming a ghost musing / 7 min

first, measuring space in terms of width, with word-processing software: here, summon a block of text that will move one way or another. we often ask where is poetry but it is always outside itself, without any trace, its trace, which is to say, that trace of a phantom limb, which is a limb that bears the weight of all anxiety, whereas an index to a past persisting within the present. its absence, palpable…

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Tangent this note links to I. On the insatiability of desire, a station on Desire and the void.

Tangent this note links to About the Inadequacy of Attempting to Communicate Grief through Art, a station on Grief and substitution.

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Hop 04 A pocket of void in the universe event / 3 min

This is a continuation of this post.

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Tangent this note links to 2025-01-22 · When a work of art speaks to you, a station on Film as philosophy.

Tangent this note links to 2025-01-29 · The battle against entropy, a station on Language and the unsayable.

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Hop 05 Making sense of making sense event / 2 min

I am a veteran in writing about the things I want to say in obscured language. Almost always, I free myself of the things I want to say by saying them in such a way that only shows the fringes of the idea that I want to communicate. What I write are silhouettes of expression. Mainly, and most probably because I am not ready to admit that what I am about to say is directly referenced by the type of person that I am.

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Tangent this note links to 2025-01-17 · On the death of David Lynch, a station on Film as philosophy.

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Hop 06 When the Earth Pushed Back creative

Parataxis: let us start with how we mythologize ourselves.

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Hop 07 We Were Mute in the Mouth of the Moon creative

1. Bring me closer to the things I’m afraid to touch. 2. When gods take the form of floating bodies in space, faith becomes the orbit. 3. —where the body becomes more than a silhouette, a soul manifest, tangible, erotic. 4. It was Adam who named the gods as a consequence of understanding. 5. “Give me a name.” 6. Language is a time machine, and I am reaching out into the future. 7. Skin against skin, I falter to a…

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Hop 08 Jacob's Ladder creative / 2 min

: Find me when I am untenable. Enclose these hands, this heart, these hours with the harboring horrors of human touch.

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Hop 09 perpetually inconsolable · Perpetual inconsolability and the phantom groove thought / 2 min

three weeks, or four, after bobbi died, i told my wife that instead of trying to think more about it, i would consider myself perpetually inconsolable. since then i have left it at that, even through the moments of longing in her absence.

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Hop 10 a small glossary about the weight of loss · Between problem and void thought / 4 min

A problem has frames and solutions. A void has neither.

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Hop 11 A Letter to Simone Weil, on distance · Grace without consolation musing / 4 min

Simone,

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Hop 12 Declarations_Of faith creative / 2 min

There are times when time itself almost feels like water running down on your body washing away all shame, guilt, and regret. Sometimes it is true with taking a shower, soaking all sins on your skin like a sponge absorbing excuses and mistaking them for reasons in doing what you think is right, until it all drifts away to the drain. This shower takes years. You become a new person baptized by age. Bathing becomes…

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Tangent this note links to Declarations_Of the body, a station on Language and the unsayable.

Tangent this note links to Consequences of Belief · The observing 'I' and the architecture of solitude, a station on Work, therapy, and recovery.

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