Man.
Such an puss.
absently Huh excuse me
Wha
Your expression, your face. What’s going off inside your head?
he smiled wrily Nothing
Im emptying my mind of
what I think I know
Im
not-knowing
buddyboy was uncomfortable with concepts
that didnt toe lines that didnt drag their feet through the dirt
You said .
. . . not not
knowing.
Correct Jah
Which means what?
Keats
John Keats
In a letter
to his brother wrote of negative capability which he defined as a state an appealing state in which a person I quote is capable of being in uncertainties,
mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
I find the aspect of irritable reaching appealingforget what I know learn anew curious without memory and desire
You’re so fucking queer.
Perhaps you can think of it this way
As Maurice Blanchot French writer philosopher literary theorist influenced post-structuralist philosophers
Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida you may have seen their books on the hallway shelve . .
. . Now that you’ve mentioned them, I have,
although I’ve not opened any.
Which is to your disadvantage
Blanchot wrote La réponse est le
Malheur de la question
Ouh là là. Frenchie no less.
Two years junior high I loved conjugating So titillating
Jesus.
Did you want to pick it apart with your knowledge of French
I’ve none, took five years of Spanis . .
.
. An sound like a piece of work whenever tryin to slip into the lingoLook at me an old gringo hobbled speakin broken Spanish to the young goodlookin female Mexican counterworkers or servers Yanever fail
Yaever see in their faces they know EnglishJust say what you want save us the
pain of you tryin to make time tryin to be an adorable old entitled white man
Broken bilingual
Jaysus
No.
I think they like me trying to speak their language. I think I rather humor them.
Oh ya definitely humourem La
réponse est le Malheur de la question
The answer is the
misfortune of the question
That’s what you’re
thinking about?
Not-knowing Present
Jah
1843, Tuesday,
31 3. 26
1115, reggaefriday,
3 4. 26
https://www.differentlens.co/p/the-power-of-not-knowing
https://iep.utm.edu/maurice-blanchot/