When are you an interesting writer?

[shiels]

Well?

 

[luka]

Well..

 

[luka]

It's a good question....

 

[shiels]

And you’re about to give a good answer

 

[luka]

i think, probably, that what we think is part of the substance of the moment. It partakes of this particular time and the words help reveal so,etching of the nature of the moment.

 

[luka]

In the same way a tarot or I Ching reading would

 

[luka]

In the same way a tarot or I Ching reading would

Look

https://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=15051&highlight=Revealing

 

[shiels]

I was actually reading that yesterday it’s a good thread. Yeah I think it’s about the moment and momentum, something about the writing being more of a vehicle than a snapshot?

 

[shiels]

Actually that’s prob the opposite of what you’re saying!

 

[luka]

Explain the difference between a vehicle and a snapshot please

 

[shiels]

A snapshot tells you how things were at a certain time and place. A vehicle helps you navigate through time and space.

 

[luka]

Uh. It's tricky. I think writing like music externalises internal space and allows you to steer through it.... In a vehicle. The sugar glider the astral body. That's uncontroversial.

 

[shiels]

What's the sugar glider? I love the word glide. I like when writing glides

 

[luka]

It's the vehicle you use to navigate that other space

 

[luka]

It's not like the body. It works differently. But it's analogous to a body

 

[shiels]

Language as a way to transverse time, step outside?

 

[luka]

writing does incredibly strange things to time.

 

[Mr. Tea]

-deliberately adopt positions that you don't really believe. If I write what I whole heatedly believe it gets v boring v quickly

But do you actually believe this or are you just saying it?

 

[luka]

What I tend to say is that writing is done outside of time and information exists outside of time.

 

[luka]

Shakespeare's sonnets return to this idea constantly. The writer is outside of time. Information is outside of time.