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February 18, 2008
Predicting Style
A popular question posed - however many different ways it was framed - alluded to Nemerov's inclusion of (in my previously-stated words) religion, a modern economical juggernaut, and ancient civilization. The former two (to Nemerov) embrace a nothingness, a weightlessness, a feeling of effortlessness. The latter is constrained, it's been bound, it represents the essence of loss - which is a definition of pain.
The goal then, is a systematic approach to pain. First, it needs to be located - whether external or internal - then it needs to be shifted from the focal point. If the systematic method of decentralizing pain is effective, pain will lose its focality (Krista told me I could use this word) and become just one area in another life system. It no longer distracts or torments, it merely exists (credit to Prof. Moss). That, in a nutshell, is the process of framing pain and in effect, making it effortless.
Style, however, embodies its trueness only when it isn't limited to the page. By not limiting style to a form of product (ie. imprisoning it in written text), it reigns effortlessly inside the mind. At it's purest form, style needs no system, or, the existence of style outside of a limiting system keeps it from: a) contaminating the very ideas it embosses b) becoming weighted down by the constraints of the system it's entering into.
Pain is quite possibly one of the most fluid and difficult aspects of life to understand. Like style, pain is evasive of frames, but unlike style, pain is bound by systems, whereas style only conforms to (and becomes capable of destroying) a system. In Neremov's poem, the correlation of pain and style is immense. Pain is required - a different kind of pain - to access the style of the unwritten works, which, by remaining unwritten, are not bound and deformed. The frame of the pain is internalized, where when style's damaging fingers are drawn across creation, the pain of the loss is externalized. Libraries, documents, artifacts, unmeasured importance lost. The style has not only limited the interpretation of the piece, the very existence (and subsequent destruction) of the documented ideas has pushed the pain to an external frame, one that cannot be reduced effortlessly. I thank Flaubert, indeed.
Coming soon. Beware!
Posted by pantaleo at February 18, 2008 07:32 PM
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Pain is quite possibly one of the most fluid and difficult aspects of life to understand. Like style, pain is evasive of frames, but unlike style, pain is bound by systems, whereas style only conforms to (and becomes capable of destroying) a system. In Neremov's poem, the correlation of pain and style is immense. THIS IS FANTASTIC:
"Pain is required - a different kind of pain - to access the style of the unwritten works, which, by remaining unwritten, are not bound and deformed. The frame of the pain is internalized, where when style's damaging fingers are drawn across creation, the pain of the loss is externalized. Libraries, documents, artifacts, unmeasured importance lost. The style has not only limited the interpretation of the piece, the very existence (and subsequent destruction) of the documented ideas has pushed the pain to an external frame, one that cannot be reduced effortlessly. I thank Flaubert, indeed."
KEEP GOING! --PLEASE ALLOW ME TO GET OUT OF YOUR WAY!
Posted by: thyliasm at March 3, 2008 12:23 PM
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