It's a collection of fragments...
...and since I am not an expert in theology or philosophy or cultural criticism, and since I have neither the brains nor the vision nor the discipline to make them into the essays or books they might become, fragments they will remain... like the broken pieces of the body of Adam that struggle against each other and yet ache for communion.
At least I'm not alone:
Fragmentary writing is, ultimately, democratic writing. Each fragment
enjoys equal distinction. The most banal one finds its exceptional reader. Each,
in its turn, has its hour of glory.
Of course, each fragment could become a book. But the point is that it will
not do so, for the ellipse is superior to the straight line. It is also a
matter of laziness: one has no right to waste time to no good end, any more than
to exploit oneself to no good end. And a matter, too, of compassion for words,
which have done so much work already.
By contrast with those who place all their hopes in the indigestion of
ideas and arguments--the abuse of ideas, the prostitution of words and the
textual harrassment of language would be an interesting subject for debate--you
will be judged on the brevity of your intuitions and arguments.Jean Baudrillard--Fragments (Cool Memories III, 1990-1995)
2 comments:
Starting off your blog with a quote from a Frenchman...a dangerous proposition I'd say.
When one is looking for a way to justify one's laziness, where better to look than to a frenchman,
n'es pas?
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