Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:59:47 -0800
Subject: silopsism
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>in the western i'm reading i stumbled upon this unlikely passage:
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> "The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not
>constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in
>one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without
>our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is
>that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you
>shall not lose you way. For existence has its own order and that no
>mans's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
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> joel lederer wrote:
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>>>You struck a nerve when you said "stay puzzled". I remember an
>apifinal
>moment of mine, borne out of confusion and the illusion of needing
>direction
>when it occurred to me to "stay a weirdo". It has helped me to accept
>the fact
>that I'm not going to be doing things the easy way and that as long as I
>realize
>that the good stuff is beyond words and cognition that pictures
>(photographs)
>are my way of dealing and well...
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>jewelia wrote:
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>> my rule is to stay puzzled -- healthy and art is more interesting that
>way, at least i think.
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I used to think that way. Stay puzzled, be a wierdo, there's too much stuff
out there to know it all.
Then, I actually met Salvidor Dali; and it all became clear. Be real, be
yourself and he was a natural, real person. Didn't matter that he didn't
hang from his heels like a Vampire, or put the rose he was given inhis
mouth.
He was just a guy, and we talked like people and I left the room, that small
gallery that night completely changed. A normal, unpuzzled, more
knowledgeable cowboy from Utah Stete University on my way back home to
Carmel, California from Paris, France. Really normal. Just a plain person.
Yup. Uh, huh, mmmhum.
Me.
:-}'~
S. Shapiro, Carmel, CA
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