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Fragments 59

by Douglas Milburn

MLF59-001.

The strangeness we invent--our sciences and religions--is nothing compared to the strangeness we are.

MLF59-002

Bi- or multi-partite scultures replicate the structure and regressive enrichment of the bipartite brain and mind. England and America. Spain and South America. Africa and the New World. China and the overseas Chinese.

MLF59-003

Odd, but apparently failing radios sometimes tune finer.

MLF59-004

Just as all Western philosophy is a footnote to Plate, all pianists playing Bach since 1955 are in conversation with Glenn Gould.

MLF59-005

Amenhotep was right. Greater light may exist, but the sun is enough, more than enough, for us.

MLF59-006

The fugal moment. Something happened to consciousness around 1600. Creating a fugue is one thing. Playing it is something altogether different and pscyhologically revolutionary.

MLF59-007

Old words, like training wheels (or maybe crutches), to be discarded.

MLF59-008

Mid-20th-century there was, as occasionally happens, another crack in the cosmic egg. Light rushed in.

MLF59-009

Though masked for a while by education, money, privilege, or power, character will out.

MLF59-010

Orwell got it backwards. Big Brother isn't watching us. We've been conditioned to watch Big Brother... five or six hours a day.

MLF59-011

What do we, like cats hearing us talk, perceive as noise that is in fact language?

 

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