matthew goulish : lecture in the shape of a bridge collapsing


C: 5. floodlands

What does sorrow signify?

B: a building without a roof

C: They have raised enormous structures, they have achieved precision in certain rational constructs, and I have loved this to some degree.
But if I begin precisely with this, the possibility, relative, of my nonexistence, who then are they, my father and mother? what did they want? is this question absurd, or is it a channel for death to move in?
That is the way it is when everything is dangerous.

Caught in the floodlands of memory, in the delirium where desire originates, we believe in our own existence. We observe birds engaged in flight, observe ants engaged in reconstruction.

From these observations emerges something we understand as reality, convincing us of the peacefulness of the dead.

Change again; we do not change again.

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