“A bad song is absorbed whole, in the moment, unconsciously. The person whose life it enters barely knows it’s there – it’s just part of the day. But as time goes on, and the song fails to live up to the life of the person carrying it, it starts to break down. It reveals itself as a tumour in the psyche. Never saying it’s name, it frames the bits and pieces whoever absorbed the song was willing to settle for – and that’s all there is.
Of course everyone settles. No one wins. The absolute was denied in the Garden of Eden, and the defining characteristic of human beings remains their ability to want what they know they cannot have. That contradiction produces rage, desire, hate, and love, and real art brings all those things to life. Art that quiets or buries those cultural instincts can’t survive the human faculty – it falls apart. But as it does, it humiliates whoever carries it.”
Greil Marcus
It’s like putting ‘When Will I Be Famous?’ next to ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’. Emptiness versus substance, lies against truth. Be careful what you consume, programming exists in everything.
“To walk down the street as most people perform the act is to reject the only free handout life has to offer, to trample on the prince in a rush for the toad, storming the pawnshop to exchange gold for dross. What we call ’reality’, according to Burroughs, is just the result of a faulty scanning pattern, a describing device run amok.”
Ann Douglas
“We make truth. Nobody else makes it. There is no truth we don’t make.”
William S. Burroughs
I am setting a trail. Truth and Infinity is the starting point, it shall always be. Afterall, whatever you need to know can be found here, but do not let that confine you. There is a long path ahead, perhaps a lifetime, do not panic if you cannot immediately see the signs, it may be that I have yet to discover them myself. Although I am some way ahead. At the end you will know. You will also find an email address to confirm.
28/8/05:Truth and Infinity is no longer the starting point but what you need to know can often be found here. 'Trail' now starts from
here.
