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Since all veiling is self-veiling, we cannot help but think that behind the rational metaphysician, philosophy’s great Master Player, stood Plato the poet, fully aware that the entire opus was an act of play, an invitation to readers not to reproduce the truth but to take his inventions into their own play,
Nice
Metaphysics is about the real but is abstract. Poetry is the making (poiesis) of the real and is concrete. Whenever what is made (poiema) is separated from the maker (poietes), it becomes metaphysical.
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I AM THE GENIUS of myself,
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The words die with the sound.
Beautiful
things do not have their own limitations. Nothing limits itself.
“Nature has no outline. Imagination has” (Blake).
to look is to look at what is contained within its limitations, to see is to see the limitations themselves.
defined—that is, placed in its proper location.
My birth, when understood in terms of causal continuity, marks no absolute beginning. It marks nothing at all except an arbitrary point in an unbroken process.
Such a person “is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of, as the physician would prefer to see, remembering it as something belonging to the past” (Freud).
Not allowing the past to be past may be the primary source for the seriousness of finite players.
Key
it is only by remembering what we have forgotten that we can enter into competition with sufficient intensity to be able to forget we have forgotten the character of all play: Whoever must play cannot play.
Boom meta core
It is the genius in us who is capable of ridding us of resentment by exercising what Nietzsche called the “faculty of oblivion,” not as a way of denying the past but as a way of reshaping it through our own originality.
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Genius arises with touch. Touch is a characteristically paradoxical phenomenon of infinite play.
The opposite of touching is moving. You move me by pressing me from without toward a place you have already foreseen and perhaps prepared.
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When actors bring themselves to tears by their performance, and not as their performance, they have failed their craft; they have become theatrically inept.
Lul
We are touched through our veils.
hale,
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Healing restores me to play, curing restores me to competition in one or another game.
Boom
They treat the illness, not the person.
The dread of illness is the dread of losing.
Yes
infirmities,
healing requires no specialists, only those who can come to us out of their own center, and who are prepared to be healed themselves.
Nice
genuine sexual expression is at least as dangerous to society as genuine artistic expression,
it views persons as expressions of sexuality, and not sexuality as the expression of persons.
Sexual rebels, violators of the sexual taboos, do not weaken this ideology but affirm it as the rules of finite play.
Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner’s prize is the defeated opponent.
only in sexuality do persons themselves become property.
Serious
We do not become losers in civilization but become civilized as losers.
sexual genius
Infinite players do not play within sexual boundaries, but with sexual boundaries.
In finite sexuality I expect to relate to you as a body; in infinite sexuality I expect to relate to you in your body.
Niiice
We cannot have a precise understanding of what it means to be the winner of a contest until we can place the game in the absolute dimensions of a world.
Bounded context
World exists in the form of audience. A world is not all that is the case, but that which determines all that is the case.
if you are fond of looking stonily at smiling persons, the persons must be there and they must smile.”
putative
Time divided into periods is theatrical time.
Time does not pass for an infinite player. Each moment of time is a beginning.
A finite player puts play into time. An infinite player puts time into play.
Nice
Infinite play remains invisible to the finite observer.
poiesis
the essence of infinite play is the paradoxical engagement with temporality that Meister Eckhart called “eternal birth.”
Boom key
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed” (Bacon).
A prediction is but an explanation in advance.
“One may say ‘the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility’” (Einstein).
“We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning” (Heisenberg).
Boom key
By confronting us with radical unlikeness, nature becomes the source of metaphor.
The unspeakability of nature is the very possibility of language.
For them physics is a poiesis.
no speaking is possible that is not itself historical.
