online: 3 december 2019
modified: 29 november 2019

catching up with reality


when i see this word 'reality' used in this way . . . more as fiction than as fact . . . a smile creeps over me . . . as the very serious truth of medical reality is interpreted by doctors and nurses and everyone else . . . as the interpretation of illness of various kinds takes on an absolute quality or truth . . . when in fact we all know that the greater truth is that of art and fiction not science . . . although both are necessary in view of the dual nature of human life . . .

. . . this can come as a bit of a shock to all of us in relation to their teachers, doctors, professors, theologians and playful, philosophical artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Picasso and all such people . . .

. . . there have to be discontinuities between self and Self * . . . but also a profound intention to unite the dualism which destroys . . . that is a truth beyond all fictions . . . is that it?


* i dont know what this distinction means, but i like it


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