<< message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura >> From: "Michael-janck Snydert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:58:38 UZT
Everything mirrors opposites, not to sound rambling or discouraging, but infinity does exist - to quote the saying: "we must repeat". Perhaps not enough focus has ever been given - aside from eccentrics like Joyce and Carrol (Vergil?)- to mirrors. But repeat-reflect - a mirror reflection is not accurate, but a flipped/horizontal of that which is looking into it. If one is going to start talking mirrors at a book, one then takes into account the reader, following basic causality, albeit possibly unconsciously. This is so ingrained in people, the dislike of infinity, that they create things like religion, or at least utilize said things, to hide from it. I heard someone once call it "one of those rambling things one will never know". But its not that hard to think about. The humunculus psyche (which of course is greek for mirror) can say nothing that isn't a description of itself, even if flipped horizontally. Why can't things be straight forward extreme? I don't know, but the universe doesn't seem designed that way. Only humans dislike camoflouge (or do they?). Jerzy Kosinski made a good point when after killing someone, the difference betwixt the action and memory saved his heart from exploding. As long as people huddle together in groups, they can be labeled "American or French"; otherwise, can one person really represent a country? If a country, why not a region? and if a region, why not a town? And why not make towns their own seperate countries? If you live in New York for a while, you begin to forget where you are, becoming only dimply aware that you are in some giant metroplitan area on earth. But in L.A., everyone thinks and says they are on the "WEST COAST" in "L.A." inside whatever "VALLEY" or "SANTA MONICA", even if they grew up there. The saying goes "if you aint from new york ya soft". I geuss one has to be tough to live without the security of mirrors and extensions (of the nervous system). But most of history can be explained through technology and the looking glass, an oculus of the flesh. It may be that the writer of that Aeneas has only done such a good characterization, that his model accidentally has human qualities. Or he may have known. One can't really ask him can one? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
