luka
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Partly on watching interstellar. Partly as sunlight and return of spring. Housework in the revelation of Light. Partly in light of dispute/misunderstanding with Padraig. Partly Barry and Reynolds pretetending to not yndersrand poetry. This as symbol takes on some of its freight from the Bible. Dust to dust. You can't wriggle free from that but equally dust as symbol is of course not reducible to its biblical context. It is an ever present in human life. It is the residue. Dust is the revenge of the left behind and the superceded. The revenge of the replaced and forgotten. The spiteful subsistence of the dead. And dust is symbol of the duty, always resented, hugely, due to Life and its maintenance. Always wiping it clean. Patiently removing the dust again and again so the inscription can be read.
We are always at war with dust because it is implacable. It is a function of life. Its desideratum. It always threatens to overwhelm us,to bury us. But still we treat it tenderly knowing that everything we are now will soon be dust.
We are always at war with dust because it is implacable. It is a function of life. Its desideratum. It always threatens to overwhelm us,to bury us. But still we treat it tenderly knowing that everything we are now will soon be dust.