Monday, 26 January, 2004

Best of jill Hives Mir who runs the Web log the Dim Sum Diaries has a post referring to my blog roll,. This reminds me I have more sites I mean to add to it, while keeping it small. Mir's Post revolves around the name I gave it: "Terrifying Face of the Other". She has illustrated the principle perfectly in all its inherent complexity with a Calvin & Hobbes. My niece and nephews will approve. It set me to wondering; though, why I called it that. I named it the way the way I name things and come up with new ideas. I grab the first thing floating by in my stream of consciousness that doesn't have sense to get out of the way and haul it aboard. This begs the question why would a phrase like that just happen to be swimming by. I remember once the first week or so I knew my friend Micaela. This was back when I called her Nancy. I thought I understood her, and I told her this. We were both sophomores in college at the time. She gave me a hard sour look and said that that was the worst thing anyone could ever say about anyone else. At the time - when she was near half the age she is now - she viewed a persons individual experience and interior life as a formidable thing - not to be guessed at or assumed. An opaque surface. I remember her saying once that when she was very young she said to her sister (Sally) that when she grew up she was going to save the the world. Her sister shrugged and responded crushingly "Save the world - from what?". Sometimes what you see people go ahead and do, and a certain part of what they say, consists of the id leaking through into their managed lives like a Francis Bacon portrait. I always run across people who claim not to know why people do what they do, better that than admitting that they do. I think people who write are always delighted to find that snowman who will take you by the hand and fly you over the country villages to the north pole to meet Santa Claus. Still like Bill Waterson, they may not be inclined to too quickly turn their back to one. I am sure for my part that everyone on my blog roll has the ability to save the world or bite it to pieces. Even as they wonder at it. 9:14:38 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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