Speeding along through the course of life into the moment of death where he sees his other and becomes no one.
Artemis
Alchemical making into gold
The words we make into the world become the tree of knowledge that poisons us, hemlock tree, from seeing what is there without our defining. Desire and
Adam starts to name the garden after he has eaten from the tree of knowledge. It is a poisonous tree, like the hemlock that killed Socrates, we cloth ourselves in words.
Knowing without naming is the garden of eternal youth, ripe to the moment.
The human will pushes into the world, like sex bringing two people together and making something new, and in its wake, as in the beauty of the water rippling from the force of a boat, marking its path, or to “to awake” back into your own control. Naming makes the man, like clothing, dressing up what was already there in what you will it to be by your hand. The drape of the name, witches spell, alchemists bending the elements, gives you the peace of ownership, King Midas’s golden touch, to name is to own, to make solid and still what was once wildly beyond.
You can never own what you want, it is formless. We see what we want in many different forms and to complete what we are on our own through that which is a part of the shared, material, discernable world, we flow like water the only way we can go, by all the confines of stone, the ones in the world and the ones in our mind.
To one lusting, a woman is a table, or a book. She is the thing that sits between him and the constant other, sitting with him for a conversation.
A dialogue between faust and the gods.
We see the blinded eyes of Oedipus. An old hand reaches. A key. A young females eyes open. A young man’s eyes open. A young man’s hand starts to reach. Flashes of Wagner, Mahler, Busoni, James Joyce, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Socrates, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Homer. A wall of fire. We see old Faust throwing his books into the flames, bible included. Oedipus’ eyes open. We see the young man’s hand reaching. Helen of Troy, Eve, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Ondine, shone lau, psyche, cupid, Aphrodite, Priapus, an obelisk, Isis, Artemis. A wave of water. Oedipus’ eyes open. The hand reaches. A table. An ear (as in one listening). An empty page and resting pen. The holy grail. The holy grail is set on the table (display). ‘Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo. Osiris. Zues. Lightning flashes. The eyes open. The hand reaches. A mouth moves, speaking quickly. A diagram of an atom. The Milky Way. The word ‘Logos’. A hemlock tree. The hand of king Midas. Gold. The eyes open. The word ewig. They eyes open. The hand reaches. A passionate kiss. A knife blade makes a gash in someone’s side. A hand reaches. Abraham sacrificing Isaac. Jesus on the cross with a gash in his side. Water rushes. Folio 36 of C. G. Jung’s Red Book. From it come circles of color. Eyes open. The hand reaches. Walpugis night. Mayday. Spring flowers. A classic painting depicting Holi. Colors of the rainbow flash. The hand reaches. Fire burns, water rushes, lightning crashes, the eyes open, they eyes open, they eyes open.
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