080392
Parentheses - An interruption of continuity; an interval.
"This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for — the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing" (Margaret Atwood).
“For every period of time when you exist, short or long, there is a temporal part of you that exists only then. And for any temporal parts of any objects whatsoever, there is a larger object made up of just those parts.” - John Locke
"Every time I enunciate 'I', even in my thought, an identity is assumed, and this identity is itself not simple, but a figure of a complex gathering of personal and impersonal histories, texts, discourses, beliefs, cultural assumptions, and ideological interpellations...it is not an artifact but a process." - Richard Dyer
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
enchantment is a state of being bewitched.
uncannily, watching Enchanted for the fourth time had left the most profound effect on me. questions just keep coming to me one after aother, and after some thinking the answers come too, conflicting and each one erasing the one before, such that i really must type all these down to keep some kind of record which i can laugh at several years later. you know, like how you laugh at the stuff you wrote when you're six and think you knew the world enough.
here are some reflections from the jaded and cynical (my current favourite emotions, because they help me write essays) about true love:
uncannily, watching Enchanted for the fourth time had left the most profound effect on me. questions just keep coming to me one after aother, and after some thinking the answers come too, conflicting and each one erasing the one before, such that i really must type all these down to keep some kind of record which i can laugh at several years later. you know, like how you laugh at the stuff you wrote when you're six and think you knew the world enough.
here are some reflections from the jaded and cynical (my current favourite emotions, because they help me write essays) about true love:
- a quick search on the net found me a half-expected truth - BLOODY HELL, MOST OF THE FAIRYTALES WE READ ARE FROM A PAIR OF BROTHERS (THE BROTHERS GRIMM). snow white, rumpelstiltskin, cinderella, hansel & gretel, rapunzel, sleeping beauty and the frog prince are all from the same pair of.. males who are almost twins. i was wondering how did so many authors happen to have the same ideas/ideals of love, and if so, these notions of true love may indeed be for real. and then CHEY! they are almost written by the same person! these 2 brothers dont know what kind of trouble they have caused for generations of boys and girls to come (they wrote it in 1815ish times). if there are any idealists of love out there (who believe in stuff like "true love's kiss is the most powerful thing in the world!"), you can blame it on these two.
- on to more serious stuff - dating/courting. in entirely my own opinion, courting is a way of deceiving the other party (who did not like you at first sight) into liking you, and if carried out long enough, the other party may actually delude him/herself into liking you. as silly as love at first sight might sound, it may actually be THAT step closer to true love. at least for love at first sight (for both parties!) there is the attraction there to keep things alive, w/o that initial attraction by either party there cannot be true love (remember, this is my opinion)! it would only be miserable for the lovesick party trying to make a relationship out of nothing. hence i think that true love needs no courting on both parts (why do we even date? or should that just be called spending time with each other? or is it really courting?). it will happen naturally and effortlessly. no one should feel burdened or miserable when in true love.
/ will include more tomorrow perhaps.
Labels: askant