Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts

6.8.18

dao de jing xi


thirty spokes share one hub
make the nothing therein appropriate
and you will have the use of the cart
knead clay in order to make a vessel
make the nothing therein appropriate
and you will have the use of the clay vessel
cut out doors and windows in order to make a room
make the nothing therein appropriate
and you will have the use of the room
thus we gain by making it something
but we have the use by making it nothing

dear elevens,

here’s a life goal for the dispossessed and innovative: describe the procedures and policies of making nothing appropriate. write a manual. develop curricula. institute degrees and esteemed places of higher learning. compose a society, careers, aesthetic and mystical subversions, religions and laws, the corollary outcast and imprisoned and abused and unacceptably alternative. write a novel describing it. form a political party promoting it. die defending it

a little bit extreme though, isn’t it, for any relations between something and nothing – which, after all, are just everything and are here, existing, in my aubergine and spectacles