To think again (Edson)
And so, after considerable thought, I decided not to think again, but simply to exist.
But even that becomes tiresome.
So I began to think again.
Russell Edson, from "The Canoeing Trip"
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Obviously sound is not to be taken as the negation of sound or of speech, any more than the seed is the negation of the plant. Sound and silence is a matter of potentialities and realizations. It would be vain to deny that there is opposition between these, but as long as one always has reference to the other and that reference is preserved, they play into each other's hands. So there is no negation of one by the other. There is negation, however, in frivolous speech, which has no reference to silence and so prevents valid speech or sound.
—William Bronk
—William Bronk
Saturday, May 08, 2010
