Ludicrous
Where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Jesters
Jokers
Jesus-ers
Swamis
Yogis
Tricksters
Pranksters
Harleq1nns
Hobos
Bums
Buffoons
Fools
Fakirs
In-betweeners
In the box but out of it
Of the whirl but not in it.
Out law in law: now you see
it now you don’t at the same
time all at once Neither common
sense nor uncommon nor not not-
common sense and not not-un-
common sense either.
Ridiculous to savvy & smarty-pants.
Offensive to conscientious & citizenry.
How could it be other wise?
Clowns.
Scandalous.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/TheLutheranSatire?blend=6&ob=5#p/u
ReplyDeletestumbling block and stair steps simultaneously (what the carpenter ignores)- congruous & forthright.
ReplyDeleteNever stair steps.
ReplyDeleteStumbling block/Stair step. You represent IT then.
ReplyDeleteI'm not answering any of your questions. You don't believe in answers.
ReplyDeleteRemember C.S. Lewis: "He did not leave that option open."
I'm looking up these comments and wondering where I was asking questions. Are you saying I don't believe in answers? Or final answers? or Ultimate answers? Or answers that do justice to ultimate questions? Rnd points. Nothing more to be said, wondered, questioned?
ReplyDeleteCall and response--not the same as question and answer. In dialectic (the game can't begin until someo9ne is hurt. Otherwise it's all affirmation and praise. Nothing wrong with that, either..
You asked me a straightforward, poignant question with no art in it, so it seemed. But I'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteIt was not here.
But seeing that you don't remember, it strengthens my sense (deflation) that answers don't matter. And if answers don't matter, I don't know that communication matter or people matter... The whole procedure feels Kafka-esque. What is it we are after?
For me IT'S always in terms of "a language problem"--the confusion we generate among ourselves. The language is "linear" (say) but communication is "constellational" say--it's like Fred Flatland lecturing on Spheres. Necessary but always insufficient. Neither Logic nor Sermons convince because while necessary, they aren't sufficient. Answers? Necessary, but insufficient. Kafka's characters, like O'Connor's Misfit--travel with a guilt they don't understand. They want a reason why. Answers. Look for it (explanation): The Trial and error and error and error. Can't get no satisfaction, no no no. Oh That will never do, says Christian! "I write every day with out hope and without despair," says Isek Dineson. "O, I could never live without hope," says my good church-lady Mother. Don't we talk past each other? Smoke signals from the cave on an always windy day. Just describing here.
ReplyDelete"Just describing here" is worlds apart from "Amen". Language, though insufficient, must not be discounted, otherwise things become ludicrous. (Yes, "ludere"--to play; we've had that.)
ReplyDeleteDon't know how to "unmoderate comments"??
ReplyDeleteI say "just describing" a lot as a kind of disclaimer because often description will sound more like judgment.
Otherwise?
Hopefully "things become ludicrous"--playful.