I've been trying to think of it as 'acceptance' rather than surrender. Surrender implies a struggle, something which not only can but ought to be 'won'. 'Winning' in this case would require being too near omniscient for me to imagine being really very human anymore.
Many many moons ago I conceived of a character who would be a master of memory, the end of a long lineage of such masters, who transferred their history orally and as a result, had verse and prose maps of a whole continent in their head at any given time, situated in history. It was hard writing and in the end I let that aspect of it slide, because I couldn't find a way to write the PoV of such a person and make it comprehensible to ordinary mortals. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Dana Paxson <[email protected]> wrote: > How clearly this emerges as we try to drink from the informational > firehoses every day. Two thoughts: > > 1) To trust certain people with the culling tasks is to empower them. In > the social framework, culling can be the enemy of choice. > > 2) Surrender may be inevitable and necessary, but the fabrics of > information are interwoven so richly and finely that many works inform each > work we read. The traces of Aristotle lie latent in most of what we read in > the West. We need not read Euclid's Elements to gather its meaning, because > most published mathematical works use its paradigms. And the few who read > one obscure scribbler may find in their reading what will inform all that > they write, which in turn whole worlds may read. Surrender, in the end, > becomes a joyful swim in the great seas of knowledge. > > > On 4/19/2011 7:43 AM, Alicia Henn wrote: > >> Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. >> Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. >> >> >> >> http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/18/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
