Friday, May 16, 2014
INNCOMMENURATIONI
INCOMMENSURATION
For those not in love, there’s
law, to rule,
to regulate, to rectify. (Wm Gass)
INCOMMENSURATE: I love this word and
use/abuse it
a lot. It rescues. Saves. My salve
&
salvation—delivers me daily from my ongoing
crimes
against convention and protocol.
Protects my
moving violations & alchemy.
Fools
paradise: room in the
inn.
Thank God for
incommensuration:
the word, the
notion, the idea, the
rationalization
People are more important than
ideas, my
good old man would tell me and he’s
right,
but I prefer
ideas. Solace They shape
me.
Justify my
love.
The values of
Finished Product on
the one
hand:
coherence, consistency, clarity. Hail
Merry.
The values of
Process on the other
hand:
incoherence,
inconsistency, confusion.
Mothers of my
Inventing: blessed are you
among women
and blessed are the children
that you
bear.
Incommensurate
This: the 2 value-sets. The
Two
Economies, my colleague Gary
calls
them.
Incommensurate but
collaborative.
Imagine if
only one dominated. Be boss.
That would be
half-assed yes?
But The
Knowledge of INCOMMENSURATION
is present to
mediate, suffer in
translation.
Prevent the 2
from collapse and confusion.
Otherwise
Finished Product dominates,
rules,
regulates, rectifies before it's time.
Bastard!
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