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.