The Battle of the Sets

Civil Civil-War
as opposed to uncivil civil war
civil war regardless.

Ecos Divisus
A House Divided
but of course.

RELATIONSHIP
dynamics

The
two-cats-tailed-tied-together
-tossed-over-a-clothesline
epistemology.

Thought I could Google an image for this
but not even close.

The challenge in representation
(in fiction-ing, in manifesting and
embodying with word and image)
as scientist and artist, let’s say, is
to do some just injustice to the
WHOLE—as opposed to unjust
injustice. .

But of course all we have is parts to
do it with, partial ourselves and so
limited in our partiality —not to
mention our lack, want, need,
and terms of desire, never to be
in full accord with the WHOLE
which is always more than the
sum of parts.

See what I’m saying?

How do we factory-in our personal
and collective terms and images of
desire in ways that don’t necessarily
block out, eclipse or occlude the
WHOLE DEAL we intend to
represent and “know”?

WHAT IS on the one hand.
WHAT WE WANT on the other hand.,

Those 2 hands (Is & Want) could be
said to be like 2 cats, tails tied in a
knot and tossed over a clothesline.

HAP on the one hand.
Ways we Talk about Hap on the other hand.

Is it the always the sound of one hand
clapping that we hear, and if so:
which hand.

I’m mixing my meta force here: you got
a problem with that? Improve my terms then.
We can argue. Scratch each other’s guts
& "yes-but’s" out. Have a good old
time. Get smart and smarter too.
School mode.

What’s it LIKE to be in Relationship
on the one hand. What do we WANT
it to be Like to be in Relationship .
on the other hand. And do the 2
hands just get along? I’m asking.

REPRESENT THIS. Fashion a fiction
that does injustice justly to the Facts
and Factions of the matter.

Hemingway's “Hills Like White Elephants”
continuing the battle royale
of the SETS.