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Friday, 2 August 2019


All of the possible ways of framing your current experience are latent within it, and since these are infinite your experience no matter how narrow it might seem - purely a function of the currently dominant frame - and yes, even the frames, the entire and invisible lattice of frames, is framed - is infinite. This is how you immediately recognise the threat and promise, the promise and threat, of the other. Closer to home, perhaps, certainly more consciously salient, are the multiple temporal frames which extend over intervals open towards both past and future, and these extend to the 'whole of life', from conception to death, if not far beyond. These shimmer and play over the unfolding events like a play of shadows, as if in a continually changing angle and intensity of light, in analogy with a day, a season, or a year. You can recognise this in others as well, as if each is accompanied by their own angel of the covenant. This is part of the phenomenology of the soul, in a rather strong sense, and is not undone in any way by ideas of the fictionality of the self. Rather such ideas are typical of the household objects that appear in the landscapes of extended temporality.

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