One
of those disgraces best dealt with by putting off thinking about it.
Once you’d moved on in time a little bit—making an analogy here
between time and distance, though I’m not sure you can—it would
be back in the past and therefore smaller. The law of perspective, as
in Jon
Nagy’s Television Art Book.
Like an A-bomb blast, which seared you less the farther
away you stood, in a featureless Jon Nagy landscape. I’m not
explaining this right.
At
the end he doesn´t explain it properly, like he admits, but I like
the analogy. If in Modern Physics you can talk about the continuous
spacetime, you can also talk about the spacetime perspective. When
you do something embarrasing you don´t need to run away, it is
enough to stay motionless and think (like in The King´s Ring
tale): “this too shall pass”. The people who are able to discern
how they will laugh in the future at the failure occured in the
present, can be very happy
Sol, I think the law of perspective put things in context not only of origin but also of relevance. This may sound very simplistic, but if you start with the vanishing point, meaning that we are not existing physically, just spiritual entities trying to get to the physical plane, then we come to be and continually progress through our life span in the "now" called present, and you have a built a notion of a past that is based on memories, or instruments of memory-like photographs, journals, etc. Each step you take to move away from that vanishing point will bring a different feel as to what we are becoming. The point to where we are headed is not known to us, we can't really see it. Just knowing the fact that our journey has en end is our only certainty. Yes, "this all shall pass", it puts things in context, never take this life for its face value, it is a lot more complicated than that. But try to make the take the best option in each and every step you take, and that in itself is the really the complicated matter of our existence. I think at the end of our lives, we have already moved to a two point perspective analogy. Sort of from point A to point B and everything in between is like an EKG (the rollercoaster, the adventure).
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, Mousette. There are very deep thoughts inside your text. I have really liked last sentence, such a good definition of life.
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