Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Writing on Napkins (An Unsober Reflection on Freedom)

(transcribed from notes on my bar napkins)

Availability as potential absence = alcoholism.

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When, finally, I can see objects as objects, I will be free.

And in any event, there are two ways to be free:  To be (1) attuned to the social structures, and (2) to be entirely naïve with respect to them.  The dances between the former and the latter are the reason I’m an alcoholic.

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The fragility of a social structure is determined by the degree to which you recognize it as a social structure.  The neurotic (psychotic?) tend to shatter everything because, in the light of their gazes, everything becomes fragile and a path can be laid in any direction.


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