Lesser Divide
Out of Context n°700
“I only ask for nuance. For instance, I woke up this morning — actually, I didn’t really wake up, because I never really slept; clearly not every constituent of my body found repose in slumber, and is the whole really greater than the parts? It also wasn’t exactly morning, because dictionaries impose arbitrary notions, and we too like to apply arbitrary notions onto dictionaries, such as that they dictate definitions, which they do for those who don’t know any better and don’t for those who do. As far as I’m concerned, I can only say that electromagnetic waves entered the room at both an accelerating pace and a shortening but diversifying average length, disrupting my stuttering circadian cycle by being in perfect phase coherence with it. But nuance here! The knowledge of your protagonist knows some of its bounds, and these are scientific claims that ask, demand — no, they beg!… actually, they do these three actions simultaneously with varying intensities… not figuratively, of course, but as a metaphor, or rather, a prosopopoeia — for peer-review. Yes it is only nuance that I ask, nothing but nuance. When the casheer asks: ‘will you pay with credit or debit?’, I reply: ‘with nuance!’, to which they usually answer that they do not have time for this nonsense — to which I satisfyingly tell myself that time and money are but extremely convincing illusions.”
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Written on October 14th, 2022.
