constellations

is this the place? no, this is not the place and never was. this was never the place where I met you or left you. never. but if it was? this is the place where someone mentioned your name. you weren't real, like the story of a long forgotten queen in a book. then, the red blush of your cheeks set hearts on fire. and if once, then why not again?

From Rebecca Solnit:

The belief that places in the imagination can be contained, versus narrative, wandering, wondering across genres, disciplines, and time.

Jimmie Durkham: "nothing could be more central to American reality that the relationship between Americans and American Indians, yet those relationships are of course the most inviolable and the most lied about."

R.S. The greatest tragedy of the new technologies may be their elimination of the incalculable-the coincidences and provocations and metaphors that take us out of ourselves and put us in relation to other things. To live inside a mechanical world is to live inside plotted possibility, what has already been imagined; and so technologies that are supposed to open up the future instead narrow it.

N. Klein: 'virtually lost, virtually found'

'The sky is consciousness of the landscape'

Hannah: metaphors are the means by which the oneness of the world is poetically brought about.

R.S. Another rupture is between stars and constellations, information and stories..after the telescope the sky began to fill with objects that had no place in culture, that were accessible only to specialists, and that outreached the ability of culture to assimilate new objects into existing patterns.

M. Foucault: constellations of meaning linked by metaphor were being replaced by expanding galaxies of information.

constellations: routes for the imagination to travel, approach the unknown through the known, the abstract through the concrete.

Aristotle: A good metaphor implies intuitive perception of the similarity of dissimilars.