Adieudusk对《The Life of Images》的笔记(6)
Adieudusk (雲銜天笑明,雨帶星精落。)
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第15页
I remember lying in a ditch and staring at some pebbles while German bombers were flying over our heads. That was long ago. I don’t remember the face of my mother nor the faces of the people who were there with us, but I still see those perfectly ordinary pebbles. “It is not ‘how’ things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists,” says Wittgenstein. I felt precisely that. Time had stopped. I was watching myself watching the pebbles and trembling with fear. Then time moved on and the experience was over. 不再为愚蠢在疯狂中癌变而惊讶,愚蠢和疯狂的存在中,似乎也有一种不忍目睹令人悲怜的美。
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第18页
Understanding depends on the relationship of what we are to what we have been: the being of the moment. Consciousness stirring up our conscience, our history. Consciousness as the light of clarity and history as the dark night of the soul. 有点绕,大概是说,理解,要依赖人现在什么样和如何成为现在这样这两者之间的关系。理解是种清醒的意识,明明白白了什么,以及难以言说的(灵魂)历史。
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第18页
Poor poetry. Like imperturbable Buster Keaton alone with the woman he loves on an ocean liner set adrift on the stormy sea. Or an even better example: Again drifting over an endless ocean, he comes across a billboard, actually a target for battleship practice. Keaton climbs it, takes out his fishing rod and bait, and fishes peacefully. That’s what great poetry is. A superb serenity in the face of chaos. Wise enough to play the fool. Wise enough to play the fool 要聪明的会做傻子,而如果还有超然的宁静,那就是绝好的诗了。
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第13页
Whoever reads philosophy reads himself as much as he reads the philosopher. Like everyone else, I have my hunches. All my experiences make a kind of untaught ontology, which precedes all my readings. What I am trying to conceptualize with the help of the philosopher is that which I have already intuited.
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第15页
The pebbles stayed in their otherness, stayed forever in my memory. Can language do justice to such moments of heightened consciousness? Speech is always less. When it comes to conveying what it means to be truly conscious, one approximates, one fails miserably. Wittgenstein puts it this way: “What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent. What expresses ‘itself’ in language, we cannot express by means of language.” This has been my experience many times. Words are impoverishments, splendid poverties.
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第20页
For a moment it all comes together: poetry, philosophy, history. I see—in the sense of being able to picture and feel—the human weight of another’s solitude. So many of them seated with a book. Day breaking. Thought becoming image. Image becoming thought.
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