Saturday, February 11, 2012

obscure clarity of words

"The reader participates in the effort of the
writer and the writer in that of the reader. Even if the two movements are
separated from each other, they are not so in the fact, which has not been much
considered, that the one who writes is always (simultaneously) a reader of the
text she is writing, and the one who reads is also himself (simultaneously) the
writer of the text that he is reading."..."Dressing
reality is thus the primary activity of the human being, the condition for
acting and itself an action, the essential form of action, insofar as thought
itself is the process of clothing reality (a fact that is not much considered).
What could we "do" without the capacity of "reading" reality. We would find
ourselves before a dark mass of foreboding and fear. The most important question
is not that of the greatest clarity (easiest words, dressed most modestly,
linearity in the correspondences), but rather, and maybe contrarily, that of the
greatest richness (different words contrasting the commonplaces, dressed in the
liveliest colors, uncertainty of correspondence). The word is also enchantment,
marvel, joyous invention, fancy, evocation of something other, not the seal of
the already seen, the confirmation of one's certainties."
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/canenero/the-obscure-clarity-of-words

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