SEPARATION
ANXIETY
Indo European da, dai - to separate, divide > "divine,"
"daemon," "demon," "time." All in the "to separate" family.
Differences are more important than similarities. Sames
are a piece of cake; no problem. It's the differences that
separate us that make a difference: cherished, fought to
defend & protect the diversity we celebrate; whether
you dip your bread in wine or take them separate is a
difference in Eucharistic protocol that separates sheeps
from goats, etc. Just an example is all. Turn it up. It's
the differences that count. Not the sames
Sampling the Whole (a reduction)
Inside a
convention, a culture of right and wrong,
correct and
not, good and bad:
disciplines, tradition.
Differences
that make a difference as opposed to
differences
that don’t. Students sit
in class, arms
across their
chest: bring it-- no
need to take notes;
look: there they are (thru the
door) hump back over
a desk, taking a quiz, taking a test,
taking an exam
& time to
go home jiggity jig. Money
for credit and
the chicks
for free.
Information
& Instruction. Provocation
& Eduction.
A difference Radical. Incommensurate.
The two
values:
hostile but complementary in ratios rationalized
in play and
neither boss of the other.
Tell it like it like
is; give it to me straight
short-cut delivery on the one
hand:
instruct me: say what
you are going to say,
Information
on the one hand.
Or provoke
and see what
emerges--full labor
delivery. Out! Out! Damned spot.
Facebook, my Facebook (virtual
groves of Academe)
Somebody out there likes me,
really likes me. Motive
for my unceasing perishable publications. Maybe only
God. Extra terrestrial audience. Obedient: listening to
what I have to say, commentary, expostulation,
concerns, see my family pictures, dogs asleep, left over
pizza, guitars I would sell, walking
on the beach, my
progress in grad school, outrage over environmental
issues, neglect of
returning veterans, girls abducted in
Nigeria,
Putin, internecine religious
controversies: this
is for you, somebody: booty broken for view..
.
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