Polarize in order to Rationalize

Polarize in order to Relate
(Divide in order to Conquer)

A class or community that talks
to itself, talks and talks on the
one hand; and on the other hand:
a class that covers the ground,
get's R done.that's a horse of
another color.



It's like the difference between constellating
and the straight arrow of time.   LIKE, I
said. And can  they just get along?

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Story Telling.  
 
A once-upon-a-time, a narrative,
a knowing: a telling (as opposed
to showing) with a beginning,
middle, & ending— like this
here sentence.
 
A word is not a story.
A sentence is.

We probably should argue this  out:
the difference between a WORD
and a  SENTENCE—and the
relationship.

That would be a history: how a  
word is different from a sentence
but how  they Just Get Along.
It would be a story about
opposition & relationship  as
well  as about parts and wholes
and how they get along.

Imagine a story about a story,
or  story about a story about
a story?  How many levels can
you handle? Track?

Ever start telling  a story and
wait a minute—digress a level
   and start telling   another
       within the original
       but not on the  same
       level of importance-
       just to clarify, maybe
                   (or set up a
                     significant
                     prior  event)]
and then get back to where
you started from although it's
not EXACTLY  where you
started from because  it's had
additional info added--it's evolved,
you could say:  grown.
 
But anyway—be that as it may—
you continue to tell the story,
hardly even mindful that it has
“pushed down” and “popped up” 
several “levels of logical type” in a
hierarchy which privileges your
  
         “MAIN STORY”

still evolving in time by looping  
digressions and added information
that accrue (so to speak) as the
story progresses and in manners
of speaking: the story calls up
more and more of  what it needs
to Tell Itself, say. It mid-wives itself,
self-corrects, self -educes.   
Auto-poetic. .
 
Next time you're in Converse-Action,
telling a story—watch yourself tell it,
if you can.  You probably can't.  This
kind of self-consciousness blocks the
performance unless the performance
is not the telling of the story but the
telling of the telling of the  story.
 
After the fact:  self- consciousness
 kicks back  in and looks for it's
patterns.  Makes them up.
 
Which is not the same as telling the
story. Unless one could be telling a
history about the Patterns of Telling
A Story.

Even then the actual telling and the
patterns naturally selected looking
backwards are not the same
at all. . .
 
WORD
       Sentence
                 story
 
What's the difference?
What's the relationship?

And now it's time to go to lunch.

xxxooo