{ Saturday, October 1, 2005 }
I was telling Stewart that Heidegger'd said we're too late for God but too early for Being, and he said, but the latter's not true, at least not in California. This made me laugh.
And another choice quote, discovered this weekend:
-- Michel Foucault
War, language, power, meaning. All I want is language and meaning. This weekend I was trying to explain to my new acupuncturist that I was a General and not a Soldier, but perhaps I'm neither, just a wrangler of language (which calls to mind that lovely title of that Barthes book, The Rustle of Language, what a title.)
I have a new acupuncturist. I say new as if I'd had another one, but I haven't. I've been sleeping dreadfully lately. Part of it is that I am no longer self-employed and so can't keep weird hours (up at noon, lunch a 4). Part of it is that I have to spend two hours a day commuting. And part of it is I'm working hard, but in the wrong way. (I love working hard.) So, acupuncture, so far so good. And now this:
get out of bed and go downstairs.
pick up the newspaper and turn immediately
to the obituary columns.
if your name does not appear
go back to bed.
-- Steve McCaffery
I am reading Seven Pages Missing.
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