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Between The Lines
To live between the lines. Between the obesity and the anorexia. Between
Miss Universe and the Fallen Caryatid. Between the digital, the analogic,
and the angelic. Between the linear/reductionist and the metaphorical/holistic.
Between the "intermolecular tension network" and the "rose
is a rose." Between the "stardust increments" and the "hard
realities of life." Between soup-kitchen clientele, subsidized farmers
paid to not grow wheat, and "Third Word" self-sufficiency through
technology and software. Between leisure (skola) and the big schools'
covert curricula. Between the American Dream and the "wealth that
costs too much." Between the oasis and the loophole. Between "society
as a whole" and society as a funky assembly of added-on parts. Between
the Military-Industrial complex and the inferiority complex. Between the
heat of the kill and the digital cold of the kill. Between Old Testament
Jehovah and Selective Santa Claus. Between the warm breath of love and
the mouths of charities agape. Between the devil and the least flounderer
among us.
Between Mesozoic mammals and cryptozoic humans. Between
the "obscene superfluity" and the "absurd prodigality."
Between the individuals with missions, proselytizers, lobbyists, and the
"individuals who have but acted in the obedience to the pressure
of their infernal environment which pressure is Sin" (James Stephens).
Between "enlightened self interest" and Competere,
"to strive together."
Between the dilettante and the comprehensivist. Between
the goal and the focus.
Between leisurance and laziness. Between the "workaholic"
activist and the "virile effort" of the meditator. Between the
"parasite" and the corporate aristocrat (captain of capital).
Between the utilitarian individualist and the expressive individualist.
Between the ressentience and the participation mystique.
Between Apollonian and Dionysian. Between wave-field and particle display.
Here between Promethean hubris and Dantonesque audace.
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