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I see I understand I know I remember I do If your house was on fire, what would you take with you?
Hesitation before beginning...take off. The wonderful ending gets applause because
there was never a real beginning. Enchantment comes from nowhere and vanishes
into nothingness. Yet something did happen: the tragicomic game of postponement,
of unselfconscious pleasure, certain that it doesn't fit in reality, not
positioned in time. It is nothing; nothing preseded it, and nothing followed.
Hesitation and continuing idleness. A presence of sound in an empty theater,
where noise falls silent and dwindles into a perfect acoustic presence.
In an empty gothic church, noise disappears in a heavenly echo which is
no longer claimed by anyone. And the emptiness is fully honoured as a
dept to oblivion, a relentless preservation of waiting. Gazing into the
cold light, fascinated with disappearence. Morality of exclusion and omission
jusitied by existence itself, which presents itself as a meaningless comedy,
a terrifying drama. Renounce the future. Is there a beginning? It's certainly
not self-evident, nor without obstacles.
I stand on the dark shore clasping an hourglass in my bony, decayed hand. I'm
numb, sad and cold; life is still far away. Imperialism in time has become
the making of history, a shouting dictator without a forum. A temporary
inconvenience. Here are empty palaces, houses and huts where lights burn
day and night. Fire. In a pale, watery reflection the city gleams and
lives in oblivion. In silence we conceal ourselves from eachother. Silence...eternity
was sold long ago to an alien lord; time is over he said. "Do what you
wish when you don't know what you want! Go away! Get out and wander around. |
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